Volume Quotes

466 quotes by 394 authors

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not… — Pat Conroy
Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone… — Ben Aaronovitch
In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage, and… — Hiromu Arakawa
The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark. — Nicole Krauss
And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I… — Melina Marchetta
You look different. You look unsettling.â€™ â€˜You look like you,â€™ he said. â€˜You with the volume turned up. — Rainbow Rowell
Are we not like two volumes of one book? — Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. — Edmund Burke
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. — Oscar Wilde
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and… — Milan Kundera
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there… — Doris Humphrey
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than… — Thomas Jefferson
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an… — Bruce Feiler
I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect of the filmgoers.… — Jeff Garlin
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that… — J C Ryle
Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may… — Michael Moss
American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media. — Rosecrans Baldwin
I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end… — Barry Eisler
I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places… — Kate McKinnon
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in… — Alexander Hamilton

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