Volume Quotes

466 quotes by 394 authors

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. — Jim Fergus
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.… — Diane Setterfield
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. — Voltaire
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately… — Deb Caletti
Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume… — Maureen Johnson
I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this… — Mark Haddon
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated… — Virginia Woolf
You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever… — Unknown Author
Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To… — Milan Kundera
The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest… — Jonathan Safran Foer
When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes. — Joan Bauer
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. — Charles Darwin
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young… — Oscar Wilde
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of… — George Bernard Shaw
Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short… — Janet Evanovich
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. — Dodie Smith
...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately… — Deb Caletti

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