Top 100 Quotes About Volumes
#1. They had found the seven volumes of Rowling with no help at all, but there was no squabbling.
Erika Johansen
#2. For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.
Dries Van Noten
#3. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.
Greg Lynn
#6. Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.
Marie Brennan
#7. Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
Herbert Hoover
#8. If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
Aldous Huxley
#9. [...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...]
Charles Stross
#10. Over the years, they'd become accomplished at avoiding unpleasant topics. Their burdened demeanors spoke volumes through the silence.
Glenn B Miller
#11. Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,
a certain robust and radiant physical health; or
shall I say?
great volumes of animal heat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.
Megan Smolenyak
#13. Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#14. Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
Imogen Cunningham
#15. You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
Vance Havner
#16. Two well-worn volumes by George Borrow, Lavengro and Romany Rye. The two books are an account of Borrow's time among the Gypsies and what he learned there, and I was delighted.
Louis L'Amour
#17. I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
James Loeb
#18. 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
#19. Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.
Julie Burchill
#20. Yeah, I'm working on the 7 volume of "The Life Of One Kid", but the cover it's not written 7 volume...
Deyth Banger
#21. There are some wives who require but a sentence. There are some who require a book. You, Miss Clarke, would require volumes.
Sally Cabot Gunning
#22. It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.
Anne Fadiman
#23. There's volumes to be said for a wine that takes you three glasses to decide whether you find it compelling or repellent." - EVAN AND BRIAN MITCHELL The Psychology of Wine
Karen MacNeil
#24. 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
Anne Rice
#25. Humans are easy to read, because what they're not saying speaks volumes.
Joel T. McGrath
#26. 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
#27. Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.
John Sculley
#28. When I get real big volumes of hate mail, it's usually because I wrote something poorly. But it's also because some group told people to e-mail me and those people didn't read the article, they read the post about what I wrote about. And they all e-mail me. And they all come around at the same time.
Joel Stein
#29. I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
Charlie Sheen
#30. If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.
Erin Morgenstern
#31. When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.
Joan Bauer
#32. You may borrow them, if
you wish," so I could avoid letting him startle me.
"I'd like that very much."
"I should warn you, however, that I have several volumes devoted to curses for
people who don't return books."
"I'd like to borrow those, too.
Steven Brust
#33. I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Charles Lamb
#34. ...books were portals into worlds she yearned to know, whether they be ponderous volumes crammed with accumulated knowledge or whimsical fantasies featuring magical creatures.
Kerry Alan Denney
#35. As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#36. If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max Hastings. There's Jane Austen and Tom Perrotta and volumes of letters from Civil War privates. It's pretty eclectic.
Chris Bohjalian
#37. Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
Gay Talese
#38. Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first.
Peprah Boasiako
#39. I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.
John Sherman Cooper
#40. Things will happen that you can't prevent, things will fall apart that you can't hold together, but ultimately you're shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be.
Erik Tomblin
#41. Your body is full of rage. Every sinew. It is easy to read. You speak volumes with a clenched fist.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#42. We met our partners in Europe, and they are signaling to us that supplies from traditional European gas production sources is falling, and falling substantially. Without new volumes of Russian gas, they simply cannot cope.
Alexey Miller
#43. A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason ... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
Samuel Johnson
#44. A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
Gertrude Stein
#45. I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.
Simon Armitage
#46. President Trumps election speaks volumes about the blatant failures of the Obama administration.
Steven Magee
#47. Extremely large Volumes of data Extremely high Velocity of data Extremely wide Variety of data
Judith Hurwitz
#48. Despite his genius, what Darwin didn't know about sex could fill volumes. This is one of them.
Christopher Ryan
#49. I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.
Ryan Reynolds
#50. Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.
Sanjo Jendayi
#51. There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#52. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
Diana Gabaldon
#53. How odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.
Jim Fergus
#54. The price we paid for the volumes of ourselves that we suffocated in the dark.
Nicole Krauss
#56. Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
Ambrose Bierce
#57. The reading rooms were large and quiet. Their windows were filmed in dust and desiccated insects, and seemed to age the light falling across the communal tables and the volumes in scores of languages.
China Mieville
#58. Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.
Florence Nightingale
#59. It's books," sighed Helen, lifting an armful of sad volumes from the floor to the shelf. "Greek from morning to night. If ever Miss Rachel marries, Chailey, pray that she may marry a man who doesn't know his ABC.
Virginia Woolf
#60. A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
Edmund Phelps
#61. Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.
Dodie Smith
#62. In Europe, you would almost never have people with large amounts of income being happy with a two-volume vehicle like a hatchback or a minivan. They want to structurally show their societal position, which is why three volumes are so popular. They show 'I'm part of that hierarchy.'
Chris Bangle
#63. 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
#64. How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
Theodore Dreiser
#65. Like Jean Genet, Robert was a terrible thief. Genet was caught and imprisoned for stealing rare volumes of Proust and rolls of silk from a shirt maker. Aesthetic thieves. I imagined his sense of horror and triumph as bits of Blake swirled into the sewers of New York City.
Patti Smith
#66. I felt that blush in my chest as we talked stupid talk never quite revealing our queerness to each other but somehow wordlessly generating volumes of desire like some kind of sublanguage that makes you want to splash into it even with all its tensions.
David Wojnarowicz
#67. History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.
John C. Maxwell
#70. Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
Arthur Balfour
#71. These Sultans of the fastnesses were turbaned with tumbled volumes of cloud, which shredded away from time to time and drifted off fringed and torn, trailing their continents of shadow after them;
Mark Twain
#72. Joseph's story just parted company with the volumes of self-help books and all the secret-to-success formulas that direct the struggler to an inner power ("dig deeper"). Joseph's story points elsewhere ("look higher").
Max Lucado
#73. Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.
Albert Einstein
#74. But as of late, I have been consumed with the significant task of revising the latest edition of my Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, while alternately putting the finishing touches on my four volumes of The Whole Art of Detection. The latter is a rather tedious, labyrinthine undertaking ...
Mitch Cullin
#75. Hef holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for largest scrapbook collection at over 2,000 volumes.
Holly Madison
#76. You and I won't ever find ourselves on that cross, but we repeatedly find ourselves at the foot of it. And how we act there will speak volumes about what we think of Christ's character and His call for us to be His disciples.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#77. What it would be like to spend ten years in this tall narrow house, shuttered from the world, studying its secrets and reading its volumes and looking at this girl.
Anthony Doerr
#78. The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
Maira Kalman
#79. Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer
#80. How you carry yourself speaks volumes about how you feel about yourself.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#81. So many windows are dark. It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished.
But there is a machine in the attic at work again. A spark in the night.
Anthony Doerr
#82. 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.
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
#83. A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character
Thomas Jefferson
#84. The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
Robert Morgan
#85. volumes of Once Upon a Christmas Wish On SALE for only 99 cents each.
Samantha Bayarr
#86. Ah, those eyes," he said. "They can speak volumes, but sometimes even I cannot translate the language. And we never did invent enough signs for deeper thoughts and feelings.
Mary Balogh
#87. My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes ... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.
John Adams
#88. Within, there were several ponderous brazen-bound volumes of medieval date, a thin manuscript of yellowing parchment, and two portraits whose faces had been turned to the wall, as if it were unlawful for even the darkness of the sealed closet to behold them.
Clark Ashton Smith
#89. I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!
Ringo Starr
#90. If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray
#91. You've never kicked him in the bollocks - that should speak volumes to you.
Suzanne Wright
#92. I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.
Zach Condon
#93. There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#94. And I lived in a dorm full of girls, all on the same damn menstrual schedule, so the fact that you're worse than all of them combined speaks volumes about your character.
Jessica Prince
#95. The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.
Mary Ritter Beard
#96. Cut off's are like real sadist as they watch some folks happy and disappoint the majority. People dream of a life at Delhi University. Delhiites know there is something special about the brand name and life at the campus. Rest as they say is history and it speaks volumes.
Parul Wadhwa
#98. Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.
Dave Morris
#99. The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.
Vladimir Nabokov
#100. The Life of Sir Thomas Munro, by the Rev. G. R. Gleig, in two volumes, a new edition (London, 1831), vol. ii, p. 175.
William Sleeman
