Voluminous Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

A book should be luminous not voluminous. — Christian Nestell Bovee
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
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. — John Ramsay McCulloch
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
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
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
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
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
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
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous. — Douglas William Jerrold
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
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
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
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
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
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
The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth. — Paul Theroux

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