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Quotes About Volume

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
~ Douglas Jerrold
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
~ William Shakespeare
You shouldn't have private conversations in public facilities at the top of your lungs." Point well taken, Eve was forced to admit.
~ J.D. Robb
You know, the ukulele itself is not a very loud instrument, all right? And, you know, compared to like a trumpet, right? A trumpet is really loud.
~ Jake Shimabukuro
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
~ Edmund Burke
Empty vessels make the most sound.
~ John Lydgate
confined to a small volume of inhabitable space on Cleft for the remainder of their lives, were impoverished in many ways. Of information, however, they had an inexhaustible wealth. Essentially every document that had ever been digitized was available to them
~ Neal Stephenson
The damn bells kept ringing through the fog. Bud mumbled a command to his music system, a phased acoustical array splayed across both eardrums like the seeds on a strawberry. The volume went up but couldn't scour away the deep tones of the carillon, which
~ Neal Stephenson
matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period that ends this sentence.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Authority does not increase with volume. We
~ Neil T. Anderson
useful [and] objective," further proclaiming it "the accepted authority on its controversial topic. . . . The volume is history, not propaganda.
~ Newell Bringhurst
I have not found among my possessions anything which I hold more dear than, or value so much as, the knowledge of the actions of great men, acquired by long experience in contemporary affairs and a continual study of antiquity, which, having reflected upon it with great and prolonged diligence, I now send, digested into a little volume, to your Magnificence.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
You can bring your children and your Grandma to my show. Grandma might have to cover her ears, but it won't be because she'll be hearing anything nasty... just because it'll be loud.
~ Eddie Rabbitt
Science combines a massive contribution, in volume and detail, of what we do know with humility in proclaiming what we don't. Religion, by embarrassing contrast, has contributed literally zero to what we know, combined with huge hubristic confidence in the alleged facts it has simply made up.
~ Christopher Hitchens
energy densities (energy stored per unit of mass or volume, critical for energy storage and portability)
~ Vaclav Smil
Bending over, she brushed her hair for maximum Farrah volume, then sprayed it with enough Aqua Net to stop a bug in flight.
~ Kristin Hannah
Everyone ignores two important facts: one person's crap is another person's beloved book, and publishing has always produced books in great volume.
~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.
~ Giambattista Valli
Money doesn't talk it screams
~ Glenn Beck
From Life, Volume I, by Unspiek, Baron
~ Jack Vance
Tanjecterly may be no more than one of Twitten's idle fables; his caprices and pranks are well documented elsewhere. On the other hand, the almanac is said to be a work of great complexity and inner coherence, which would seem to lend the volume credence.
~ Jack Vance
THIS little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to
~ James Allen