Volume famous quotes

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Sanctuary #Volume #Should

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
-- Al Sharpton

#Action #Program #Volume

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.
-- Alexander Siddig

#Trying #Size #Volume

Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.
-- Alexandra Roach

#Brilliant #Volume

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Kindness #Volume

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
-- Arthur Balfour

#World #Four #Volume

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Library #Management #Volume

I'm always throwing out ideas, so it's not creativity, it's just volume.
-- Ben Huh

#Creativity #Ideas #Volume

The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.
-- Conrad Black

#Doe #Natural #Volume

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
-- Czeslaw Milosz

#Stupidity #Volume

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
-- Deb Caletti

#Library #Stories #Volume

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
-- Diana Gabaldon

#Singing #Library #Volume

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.
-- Doris Humphrey

#Simple #Dignity #Volume

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

#Men #Magazines #Volume

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.
-- Grazia Deledda

#Volume

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
-- Gunter Grass

#World #Information #Volume

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

#Ambition #Gaps #Volume

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
-- James Agee

#Confusion #Confusing #Volume

In volume terms, the Tasmanian wine industry is as tiny as its potential is large.
-- James Halliday

#Wine #Tiny #Volume

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.
-- Johnny Thunders

#Volume

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,
-- Leon Wieseltier

#Velocity #Forgotten #Volume

I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high.
-- Lisa Edelstein

#Adventure #People #Volume

After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.
-- Martin Feldstein

#Giving #Dollars #Volume

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

#Book #Broken #Volume

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.
-- Michael Tilson Thomas

#Important #Volume #Disguise

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
-- Mos Def

#Speak #Volume

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Flirting #Library #Volume

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
-- Nellie L. McClung

#Expression #Revolution #Volume

Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)
-- Patrick Kavanagh

#Next #Kitties #Volume

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
-- Ritchie Blackmore

#Guitar #Giving #Volume

New York is like America with the volume turned up to 10.
-- Rocky Carroll

#New York #America #Volume

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
-- Rudolf Hilferding

#Economic #Made #Volume

Volume grows spatially slower than scaling.
-- Terence Tao

#Volume #Grows

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.
-- Theodore Dreiser

#Mean #Shadow #Volume

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
-- Voltaire

#Soul #Four #Volume

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
-- William Ellery Channing

#Biographies #Anecdotes #Volume

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
-- William Harvey

#Volume

The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
-- Zero Mostel

#Laughter #Volume #Vary

My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume.
-- Martin Winterkorn

#Jobs #Goal #Volume

Let me assure you that I am not satisfied making $40-$50 million on the same volume of beer (as) CUB sells.
-- Trevor O'Hoy

#Beer #Cubs #Volume

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.
-- Phillip Adams

#Leadership #Political #Volume

I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.
-- David Mason

#Thinking #Brain #Volume

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.
-- Roger Angell

#Ships #Volume #Encyclopedia

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.
-- Susan Wallace

#Book #Writing #Volume

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

#Thinking #Speak #Volume