Volume Quotes - Page 11

• I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Book, Reading

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• I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.

  David Mason

  Thinking, Brain, Turns

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• My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he had was a small volume of exercises by Rudolf Ganz, in which Ganz mentions the pedagogical work of the Swiss composer, Émile-Robert Blanchet, who wrote a ton of polyphonic exercises for one-hand. These exercises were a great help for finger independence, which I acquired early on. This might have given me somewhat of an edge, a facility to be able to knock any obstacle that was in my way.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Father, Book, Exercise

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• I do heavy weights in the morning for about an hour, and then I do 45 minutes of higher-volume lifting in the afternoon. My least favorite is the legs... I do quite a few chin-ups and rows. I do mostly old-school lifting with a lot of squats.

  Hugh Jackman

  Morning, Old School, Legs

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• I was actually really impressed by how many awkward stories we had, ranging from bad haircuts to one guy told us about being on the beach and he threw a Frisbee and it hit a lady in the head. His immediate reaction was to turn and he found a kid next to him and pointed to the kid, it's those kinds of moments. I was really impressed with the volume of fun stories we got to play with. No one was a loser in this game; they were all winners .

  Danny Pudi

  Beach, Fun, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dark, Knowing, Blue

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• We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

  Peter Erskine

  Attention, World, Pay

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• With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Naked, Turns

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• The strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we're seeing the demand pool beginning to grow. We have continued to position ourselves in a way that will catch this very sustainable and fundamentally supported wave of volume growth and at the same time, help our customer base achieve their lofty goals of growth as well.

  Alan Armstrong

  Strong, Believe, Goal

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• There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Fall, Errors

  "'Hand of God'? Just Ask Sir Isaac Newton" by Jerry Newcombe, www.christianpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

  John Adams

  Historical, Mind, Progress

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced life stories, but reading Stach's magnificent narrative (wonderfully translated by Shelley Frisch) straight through brings death, not life, to the forefront. Stach is a compulsively readable writer. . . . [A]s in the previous volume, the prose in The Years of Insight is supple and very appealingly complex--all of which, once again, is perfectly rendered by Frisch.

  Steve Donoghue

  Reading, Epic, Years

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• I think people actually notice sometimes the content of what one is saying rather than the decibel level at which he says it. And a lot of times when people don't have a lot to say, they increase the volume.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, People, Levels

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

  Richard Ayoade

  Keys, Trying, Television

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• Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Two, Three

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• One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Benefits, Venture, Corporations

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• I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye. But I can't look into the eyes of everyone who wants to look into mine; I can't emotionally cope with that kind of volume. Sunglasses are part of my armor.

  Jack Nicholson

  Eye, People, Sunglasses

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Whenever there's a new music, there's a new way of listening. And whenever there's a new way of listening, there are new musics that follow from that. And people start listening differently - that can either mean in different places or at different volumes or in different social groups or through different technologies.

  Brian Eno

  Mean, Technology, People

  Interview by Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

  Voltaire

  Freedom, Power, Liberty

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.87, Penguin

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• How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
  How commentators each dark passage shun,
  And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

  Edward Young

  Dark, Science, Sun

  'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 7, l. 97.

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• Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

  Phillip Adams

  Leadership, Political, Massacres

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• The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

  Colin Wilson

  Science, Feet, Survival

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• I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

  Don Marquis

  Morning, Night, Ideas

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• If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

  Daniel Webster

  Devil, Literature, Pages

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• History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

  Lord Byron

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.164, Cambridge University Press

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