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  • One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.' 'I'm not sure a book has ever changed me,' said Will. 'Well there is one volume that promises to teach one how to turn oneself into an entire flock of sheep-' 'Only the very weak minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,' said Tessa, determined not to let him run wildly off with the conversation.

    Running   Book   Sheep  
    Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • Of many large volumes the index is the best portion and the usefullest. A glance through the casement gives whatever knowledge of the interior is needful. An epitome is only a book shortened; and as a general rule, the worth increases as the size lessens.

    Book   Giving   Size  
    Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.119
  • I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

    Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited
  • Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

  • No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.

    Wall   Hair   Smell  
    "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.
  • The sheer volumes of songs have come from the hours of cold and darkness that one spends inside with the lights on.

    Song   Light   Darkness  
    Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.
  • Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

    Voice   Space   Giving  
    Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.
  • There are two schools of thought. You can be basic and spend all your time on what your opponents are going to do. Or, you can be very multiple and complex, put a lot of doubt in your opponents' minds and create problems for them with the volume of things you do.

    School   Two   Doubt  
    Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.
  • Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.

    Book   Skulls   Space  
    "Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2015.
  • In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

    Wisdom   Past   Errors  
    Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.208
  • Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

    Density   Velocity   Mass  
    Carl Friedrich Gauss (1965). “General investigations of curved surfaces”
  • What do we actually seek from food? It's not calories, nor is it volume or mass. It is, in fact, nutrition: micronutrients, which include vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytochemicals. These are components by which food can be assessed a value, and therefore, a decision can be objectively made as to whether it's worth eating.

  • I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth.

    Baby   Fun   Dad  
    "Jimmy Fallon And Baby Winnie Cover ‘People’ In Matching Suits" By Jessica Samakow, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2014.
  • Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

    Lying   Awful   Mystery  
    Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Waverley Novels”, p.239
  • I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

    People   Feelings   Way  
    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.
  • They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

    Book   Library   Needs  
  • If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and dance that humans have produced.

  • I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

  • To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

    Stars   Home   Science  
  • If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.

    Girl   Education   Book  
    Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.

    Music   Creating   Bars  
  • If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

  • It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

    Action   Program   Volume  
  • Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

    Yellow   Lakes   Race  
    Alexander Pope (2008). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy.

    Rocks   Mixing   Energy  
  • I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

    Music   Heart   Thinking  
    Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
  • It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

    Symphony   Tuning   Tiny  
  • We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

    Goal   Ignored   Volume  
  • In organic chemistry there exist certain types which are conserved even when, in place of hydrogen, equal volumes of chlorine, of bromine, etc. are introduced.

    Hydrogen   Etc   Chlorine  
  • There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

    Poetry   Doubt   Needs  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.64, Xist Publishing
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