Volume Quotes

466 quotes by 408 authors

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction. — Ambrose Bierce
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up… — Jimmy Fallon
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole… — John Donne
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a… — Richard P. Feynman
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written… — Abraham Lincoln
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the… — Benjamin Franklin
Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and… — Matthew Simmons
Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word. — Wes Fesler
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and,… — Othniel Charles Marsh
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be… — Archibald Geikie
That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities. — Jonathan Ive
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of… — Janet Morris
I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. — Henry David Thoreau
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help. — Maureen Howard
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. — Karl Marx
Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the other… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin… — Abraham Lincoln
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach… — George Eliot

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