Volume Quotes
466 quotes by 408 authors
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He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of…
— George Steiner
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just…
— Gilbert Highet
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The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that’s at least ten times better at doing something than the current…
— Ben Horowitz
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Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the…
— Steven Holl
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Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim…
— Elinor Ostrom
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Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea…
— Alexander Cockburn
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Yesterday, I tried to call Northwest Airlines' customer-service line over a couple of hours. I couldn't get through. The recording said, "Due to a high…
— Jay Nordlinger
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Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship…
— Louie Giglio
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Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us…
— Rodney Brooks
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I haven't played a more beautiful sounding mouthpiece. The sound and response that I get from the JodyJazz DV NY is unlike any other. A…
— Logan Richardson
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Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or…
— Vincent Starrett
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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of…
— Gordon Getty
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All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And…
— John Donne
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Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing.…
— Larry McMurtry
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The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
— Jerry Brown
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The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.
— Richard Koch
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I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.
— Grazia Deledda
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To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious...…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes,…
— Eugenie Anderson
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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!
— Walter Scott
Who Wrote These Volume Quotes
408 authors contributed a total of 466 Volume Quotes, led by these top contributors: