Volume Quotes - Page 19

• Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.

  Paul Di Filippo

  Clever, Book, Language

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• At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

  Hugh Hefner

  School, Cartoon, Age

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Turning 80". "The Big Story" with John Gibson, www.foxnews.com. April 6, 2006.

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• 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”

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Tony Dungy

  School, Two, Doubt

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And as we go on repeating this, strength comes. He who falters at first will get stronger and stronger, and the voice will increase in volume until the truth takes possession of our hearts, and courses through our veins, and permeates our bodies.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strength, Heart, Voice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.650, Manonmani Publishers

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• What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment - a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  "Sundance Interview: Nathan Fillion on Waitress and Firefly!". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. January 30, 2007.

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• It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

  Beryl Markham

  Animal, Men, Elephants

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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• My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

  Coco Chanel

  Reason, Dense, Diamond

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• With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.

  Rossiter Johnson

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• Don’t ever average losers. Decrease your trading volume when you are trading poorly; increase your volume when you are trading well. Never trade in situations where you don’t have control. For example, I don’t risk significant amounts of money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Gambling, Keys, Average

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• What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do
  creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap.
  For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s
  trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work
  disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want
  it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work
  that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your
  ambitions.

  Ira Glass

  Couple, Ambition, Years

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• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

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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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• 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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• How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

  Alice Tisdale Hobart

  Responsibility, People, Democracy

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• A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Mean, Giving, Female Writers

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• Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

  Steven Weber

  People, Fantasy, Happy Endings

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

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• If we continue to think of ourselves mostly as consumers, it's going to be very hard to bring our environmental troubles under control. But it's also going to be very hard to live the rounded and joyful lives that could be ours. This is a subversive volume in all the best ways!

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Growth, Environmental

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• His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Father, Character, Two

  Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1853). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.224

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• You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind.

  John Updike

  Lying, Wind, Sides

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.313, Random House

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• Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Book, Broken, Century

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• I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Skills, Weight

  Raymond Cogniat, Georges Braque, Joanne Greenspun (1980). “Georges Braque”

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