Volume Quotes

466 quotes by 394 authors

Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight… — Robert Winston
Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for… — Douglas Rushkoff
Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet… — Neal Stephenson
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… — David Hume
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb
At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before — Herman Melville
A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and… — Gertrude Stein
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites… — Jane Austen
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do… — Ayn Rand
[Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it… — Jonathan Safran Foer
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.… — Mark Twain
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How… — Oscar Wilde
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.… — Khaled Hosseini
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as… — Daniel Webster
Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle… — Diane Setterfield
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old… — Clarence Day
If you can't win by reason, go for volume. — Bill Watterson
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. — Janet Fitch
The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of… — Italo Calvino

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