Voluminous Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects -…
— J. Allen Hynek
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Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
— John Ramsay McCulloch
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No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for…
— Joseph Addison
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I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.
— David Hilbert
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a…
— Winston Churchill
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around,…
— Rachael Taylor
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The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book.…
— Richard Dawkins
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Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so…
— James Madison
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It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to…
— Max Weber
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
— Thomas Sowell
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It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.
— Paul Theroux
Who Wrote These Voluminous Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Voluminous Quotes as follows: