Volume Quotes - Page 2

• How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

  Joseph Hall

  Environmental, World, Letters

  Joseph Hall (1808). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall: Now First Collected. With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings, Written by Himself”, p.204

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stomach, Temperance, Cookery

  10 Copy quote

• These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Purpose, Use, Paper

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.215

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 are few.

  Carolyn Wells

  Fire, Two, Library

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  Eli Siegel

  Artist, Color, Serenity

  14 Copy quote

• The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Intelligent, Water, Use

  4 Copy quote

• I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

  Michael Heizer

  Commitment, Thinking, Space

  16 Copy quote

• 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 of Addison.

  Samuel Johnson

  Night, Giving, Style

  'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Addison'

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.

  Alexander Calder

  Clouds, Air, Circles

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.

  Ira Glass

  Ambition, Fighting, Way

  62 Copy quote

• I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace. It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. When I slept it was literally in the midst of an arsenal. If I heard dogs bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volume of sound than usual, I stood to arms. Have you any idea of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives it for himself.

  Frank James

  Dog, Horse, Tired

  14 Copy quote

• 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 frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Father, Book

  4 Copy quote

• The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Nature, Book

  Oliver Goldsmith (1801). “The Beauties of Goldsmith”, p.108

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.

  Fabio Novembre

  Reality, Glasses, Names

  6 Copy quote

• Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is favored by the open approach Google is taking. There are so many manufacturers working so hard to distribute Android phones globally that whether you like [Android 4.0] or not, you will want to develop for that platform, and perhaps even first.

  Eric Schmidt

  Phones, Google, Want

  "Google's Schmidt: Android Leads the iPhone" by Stephen Shankland, www.cnet.com. December 07, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Density, Velocity, Mass

  Carl Friedrich Gauss (1965). “General investigations of curved surfaces”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Book, Taken, Hands

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

  Eve Best

  Opera, Singers, Noise

  5 Copy quote

• Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Information, Way, Pressure

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.98, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

  Michael McMillian

  Tv Shows, Issues, Four

  "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Philosophical, Doe, Firsts

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.17, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Believe, Secret

  6 Copy quote

• The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.

  Lee Smolin

  Notebook, Real, Numbers

  Lee Smolin (2008). “Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”, p.106, Hachette UK

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

  William Gibson

  Long, Prejudice, Three

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

  Alexander Siddig

  Trying, Size, Performances

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source