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Volume Quotes by Theodore Dreiser
- Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
- How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
More Volume Quotes
- The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. — James Agee
- We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest… — James M. Barrie
- But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and… — Ritchie Blackmore
- And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
- There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle