Top 100 Quotes About Contents
#1. He shook his head slowly from side to side, as though it were very heavy. I could almost hear the contents sloshing.
Diana Gabaldon
#2. It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.
Alex Filippenko
#3. Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast ... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
Patrick Kavanagh
#4. More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses
it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#5. Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.
Vanna Bonta
#6. Having read several prize-winning novels, Fancy was confident that she now knew the recipe:
1. Write a simple narrative.
2. Make a long list.
3. Scatter the contents of your list throughout your narrative.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#7. CONTENTS Cover About the Book Title Page Colour First Reader Dedication Chapter
Jacqueline Wilson
#8. Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood that the Unconscious is a process and that ego's rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.
Carl Jung
#9. A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
William Safire
#10. I love to simplify and edit the contents of just about anything, but women's closets hold particular appeal to me. I edit mine about four times a year and hold a yearly 'clothing swap' to encourage my girlfriends to do the same.
Autumn Reeser
#11. Secrets and lies, they eat your insides until all you have left is a hard thin skin that covers you like the shell of one of those eggs you poke a little hole in and draw out its eggy contents before you dye it for Easter.
Russell Banks
#12. Still, the novelty of any letter or package was sufficient that no one suggested opening it until the full measure of enjoyment should have been extracted from speculation about its contents.
Diana Gabaldon
#13. No doubt this works well enough for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I can readily see that 'The Selfish Gene' on its own, without the large footnote of the book itself, might give an inadequate impression of its contents.
Richard Dawkins
#14. Our mistakes show us that the contents of our minds can be as convincing as reality.
Kathryn Schulz
#15. How light the raindrop's contents are;
how gently the world touches me.
From View With a Grain of Sand
Wislawa Szymborska
#16. I think that's the real horror story for me, how little you can ever really know about your own motivations. How in the dark we all are about the concerns and the contents of our minds.
Karen Russell
#17. The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.
Jose Saramago
#18. I insert the bevel and draw back the plunger. I know that the syringe contains more than sodium chloride-that even as the toxic contents fill my fathers veins, he is sharing with me his final gift: the horror and thrill of saving lives.
Jacob M. Appel
#19. The very unfortunate result of this preoccupation with order, control, safety, pleasure, and certitude is that a high percentage of people never get to the contents of their own lives!
Richard Rohr
#20. The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.
Gail Carriger
#21. SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
Ambrose Bierce
#22. I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.
Louis Leakey
#23. Books were expensive, as well. But she'd read enough of them to know that they were only as valuable as the contents of their writers' minds - and to her it seemed that a great many writers, had they been merchants, would have precious little inventory.
Jim Butcher
#24. A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.
Herbert Hoover
#25. Our prayer is that as you read, you'll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it's helping you open up; and that you'll praise not the author of this book, but the One he is pointing you to.
Timothy J. Keller
#26. [The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.
Hugh Everett III
#27. The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Daniel Hannan
#28. Lick my finger so I can scan your table of contents- fuck the index- I yearn to ride your story line.
Brandi L. Bates
#29. Certain first-year-physics conservation-of-momentum issues dictated that I be showered with former pig bowel contents in order to enhance shareholder value.
Neal Stephenson
#30. The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.
George Eastman
#31. If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.
Karl Kraus
#32. Flathead on the mountain. Taking them one at a time, she had the can of brains that belonged to each one opened and the contents spread on the flat head, after which, by means of her arts of sorcery,
L. Frank Baum
#33. We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#34. Brian: I love books
Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?
David Nicholls
#35. CONTENTS Endpaper Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Acknowledgments Prologue: To Question Part One: Alight 1. Santhid 2. Bridge Four
Brandon Sanderson
#36. Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
#37. Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.
Malcolm Forbes
#38. In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
Nicolas Chamfort
#39. He always felt embarrassed opening gifts in front of others, having to act out delight or surprise. He liked to peel off the paper slowly and consider the contents.
Phaedra Patrick
#40. He had that feeling he remembered from childhood when he opened a new textbook at the beginning of the term, ignorant of its contents but sensing the new knowledge to come.
Haruki Murakami
#41. I also learned that about ten thousand containers fall off ships each year. Sometimes after a period of years the container doors pop open and the contents float to the surface.
Bill Bryson
#42. Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.
Sandra Newman
#43. Like all numinous contents, they have a tendency to self-amplification, that is to say they form the nuclei for an aggregation of synonyms. These
C. G. Jung
#45. Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.
James Gleick
#47. Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.
Sai Baba
#48. Her first proceeding there was to unlock a tall press, bring out several bottles, and pour some of the contents of each into my mouth. I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing.
Charles Dickens
#49. Memory, I must suppose, if it is neglected becomes like a box room, or a lumber room in an old house, the contents jumbled about, maybe not only from neglect but also from too much haphazard searching in them, and things to boot thrown in that don't belong there.
Sebastian Barry
#50. Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book ... an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.
Scarlett Thomas
#51. Kid ... I must ask you to please refrain from reorganizing the contents of my book without my permission ... ' Noah
'Hmph. If you plan on keeping me locked up in this book, then you can at least keep the thing properly organized.' Death the Kid
Atsushi Ohkubo
#52. Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress.
Robert Kavanaugh
#53. Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.
Donna Farhi
#54. The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
Sigmund Freud
#55. I look pretty good. More than good, actually, but I'm not a teenager anymore. Caution: Contents may have shifted during flight.
Qwen Salsbury
#56. We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents ... Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.
Viktor E. Frankl
#57. You need something more nourishing than the contents of that glass, Mr. Shaw."
His hard gaze met hers. "I know what I need, you presumptuous wench. Now leave, or you're going to get a big eyeful of Gideon Shaw.
Lisa Kleypas
#58. Never judge a book by its cover, its contents may have the inspiration one needed for progression
L. Neal
#59. What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.
Lisa Alther
#60. Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
Lev Grossman
#61. Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind ... It widens the span of possibilities that you see.
Barbara Fredrickson
#62. Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.
Jodi Picoult
#63. The world will judge you by your appearance and your possessions but God will always judge you by the contents of your heart.
Janet Autherine
#64. The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard
#65. Books are memory. They remember their contents and pass them on. They keep track of who claims ownership, who they were given by and for what occasion. They mediate, in their margins, disagreements between reader and author.
Eileen Gunn
#66. I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.
Karen Russell
#67. Many believe that the Vatican withheld important parts of the Third Secret, perhaps because its contents were too dangerous to reveal...
Peter J. Tanous
#68. A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function
Gottfried Bohm
#69. No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound
#70. If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.
Terence McKenna
#71. Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.
Robert Charles Wilson
#72. The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)
Anatole Broyard
#73. All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
Voltaire
#74. The Bible is not a tool for sharpening our religious competence, but a living and active sword for cleaving our double-minded thoughts and motives, exposing and transforming the contents of our hearts.
Richard J. Foster
#75. In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.
John Sulston
#76. I am deeply in love with the world and its contents. My heartaches when I see any suffering so kindness and altruism is my ultimate way of life.
Debasish Mridha
#77. It must be a great comfort tae him, and tae all, that you have helped so considerably with matters of the Clan," Aiden said. To his left, Ranulf choked on the contents of his tankard and Adalwulf's eyes narrowed.
Claire M. Banschbach
#78. The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents
Lise Meitner
#79. As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#81. For it is not knowing much, but realising and relishing things interiorly, that contents and satisfies the soul.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#82. Contents Book the First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows
Charles Dickens
#83. In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.
Khalil Gibran
#84. You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.
P.G. Wodehouse
#85. As much as I loved my computer, I wondered if I would ever know the joy of getting a letter from someone I loved, being able to pour over its contents time and time again, to feel the paper that he touched, and to know he took the time to share his day.
Lynn Cahoon
#86. me to see the contents. Was she giving me a gift, like she gave Bart anything he wanted? He was the
V.C. Andrews
#87. In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#88. Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book ... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.
Stendhal
#89. From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
Plato
#90. I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art.
August Wilson
#91. My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.
Jonathan Lethem
#92. Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.
Hilary Mantel
#93. Allow me to add that it is my conviction that the contents of Der Stuermer as such were not (incitement). During the whole 20 years, I never wrote in this connection, 'Burn Jewish houses down; beat them to death.' Never once did such an incitement appear in Der Stuermer.
Julius Streicher
#94. Mummy always told me, you should never let a man see your feelings or the contents of your handbag.
Sophie Kinsella
#95. He tried to kill himself in grade ten, when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to tell him 'Get over it'. As if depression is something that can be remedied by any of the contents in a first aid-kit.
Shane L. Koyczan
#96. Certain tight parentheses have been opened and allowed to spill their still active contents.
Vladimir Nabokov
#98. The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.
Chris Byrd
#99. The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
Arthur C. Clarke
#100. These findings - the contents of Part II of this book - show that heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be reversed by a healthy diet.
T. Colin Campbell
