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150 Volumes quotes by 131 unique authors

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces. — Greg Lynn
We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,… — Susan Sontag
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. — Leo Tolstoy
I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be… — Alan Bradley
Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how… — Martin Feldstein
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of… — Abraham Verghese
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. — Samuel Johnson
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs… — Carolyn Wells
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes… — Samuel Johnson
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different… — Alexander Calder
The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful… — Steve Donoghue
To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on. — Paul Westerberg
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half… — Edmond de Goncourt
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes. — Mason Cooley
My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. — Mos Def
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes… — Mark Kennedy
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it… — David Lynch
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. — Robert Morgan
I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age. — Charlie Sheen
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered… — Gay Talese
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid… — William Makepeace Thackeray

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