Volume Quotes
466 quotes by 408 authors
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
— William Penn
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Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little…
— Florence Nightingale
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The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein…
— Lu Tong
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Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to…
— Patrick Kavanagh
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The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are…
— Washington Irving
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When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in…
— Andres Segovia
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My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all…
— Kenny Burrell
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Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the…
— Steve Vai
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Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day,…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
— Pierre Trudeau
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From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well…
— Victor Francis Hess
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You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of…
— David Lee Roth
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So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day — maybe even a bit worse…
— Paul Krugman
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Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social…
— Joseph Roth
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It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
— Ravi Zacharias
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An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed…
— Hernando Cortes
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even…
— Siri Hustvedt
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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it…
— Beryl Markham
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My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
— Coco Chanel
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With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the…
— Rossiter Johnson
Who Wrote These Volume Quotes
408 authors contributed a total of 466 Volume Quotes, led by these top contributors: