Volume Quotes - Page 24

• There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Encyclopedia Britannica, Three

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Interesting, Priorities

  "His Goal Was to Make It Simple to Use and a Joy to Look at. He Succeeded. The Result Was the iPod". Interview with David Derbyshire, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 19, 2005.

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• New Haven cultivates ... an open gloom that seems happy to acknowledge disrepair and the superfluity of appearance. ... I realized that what cramped the town was the weight of unwritten volumes: they scored lines of unfinished writing on every second face that walked the streets.

  Sara Suleri

  Writing, Cities, Faces

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• I've read all the books but one
  Only remains sacred: this
  Volume of wonders, open
  Always before my eyes.

  Kathleen Raine

  Book, Eye, Garden

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.139, SteinerBooks

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• I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Library, Nine

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.207, Yale University Press

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• I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

  Maureen Howard

  Writing, Imagination, Together

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• I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

  Karl Marx

  Dog, Book, Economics

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1956). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Selected Correspondence, [1843-1895].”

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• Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

  Henri Matisse

  Doe, Lines, One Line

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.48, Univ of California Press

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• One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Focus, Foundation, World

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Book, Topics, Firsts

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• For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  May, Fancy, Forgotten

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions. Ed. by [William Greenougl Thayer] Shedd in 7 Vol”, p.57

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• I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else

  Mark Haddon

  Father, Two, White

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• Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Focus, Important, Action

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• I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

  Kate McKinnon

  Talking, Laughing, Subway

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Book

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• The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Technology, Electric Vehicles

  "Exclusive Q & A with Elon Musk on the Tesla Roadster and the future of EVs". Interview with Sebastian Blanco, www.autoblog.com. July 26, 2006.

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• Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Soul, Library

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Sep 02, 2014

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• As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

  Denis Diderot

  Book, Learning, Numbers

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• I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

  Martin Amis

  Technique, Fiction, Crank

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I have been fortunate to work in places where people have a passion for their work. At HHS the passion sort of exceeds passion - it's a vocation.... I obviously knew that there were certainly some challenges that I would be taking on both with the work and the politics. [But] I probably did not have the right expectation level with regard to the number and volume of crises that would occur.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Passion, Numbers, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm really lucky in the sense that my hair holds curl awesomely well. It looks the same at 10 P.M. as it does at 10 A.M. One of my favorite products is Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray. I can get a lot of volume with it. I'm from the South - I like big hair.

  Carrie Underwood

  Hair, Curls, Doe

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• A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Men, Purses

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• Soaps are really like boot camp for acting. You learn about the industry, you learn about being on stage, and you learn about showing up on time. The sheer volume of work, on a daily basis, blows your mind and forces you to really work that muscle of memorization and just being able to change things on your feet.

  Michael Graziadei

  Blow, Feet, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath.

  Fred Trueman

  Finest, Bowlers, Autobiography

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• I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea.

  John McAfee

  Years, Ideas, Viruses

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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