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Quotes About Dense

the sturgeon must be divided in the same way as the whale, the King receiving the highly dense and elastic head peculiar to that fish, which, symbolically regarded, may possibly be humorously grounded upon some presumed congeniality.
~ Herman Melville
Are you just trying to be dense? He glared at me. But I glared right back, indignantly, and then in the tones of someone speaking to a dim pony, he said, I'd want to. If you want, I want. And if you don't want, then-- I don't want. That's the general idea of the thing, I said, getting wary all over again: that sounded alarmingly like he did want. Otherwise it's just stalking. Are you asking?
~ Naomi Novik
Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.
~ Katie MacAlister
With a mammogram - as great as they are, and they do save a lot of lives - if you have very dense breasts, it really can't see if there is something in there. There are other tests, including an MRI, that can really go into the tissue and really see cell formation and hot spots, and that's what you want to see before it becomes a tumor.
~ Christina Applegate
My favorite Hodo Soy product is the firm tofu, a dense cryovac-ed block that isn't packed in water like most store-bought tofu and, therefore, doesn't need to be pressed before using (what a revelation!). It's nutty and mild with a firm - never spongy - consistency.
~ Chris Morocco
Dunk the lunk, thick as a castle wall.
~ George R.R. Martin
The heat of late afternoon closed in around us like an animate thing; you could feel it on your skin, warm and moist, like a great beast panting. The air was so dense it seemed to require a huge effort even to inhale it. It lay thick in the lungs and seemed to give no refreshment.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Doesn't matter what planet they come from, men are so freaking dense.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
knife simultaneously. "Handy. Pretty damn handy. What's with this lining? It feels sort of dense. It's not
~ J.D. Robb
The longstanding thorn in your side Captain Numos is stupid. In fact, Numos is so dense that I'm surprised he doesn't have his own event horizon.
~ Jack Campbell
You realise that, with 'Rick and Morty,' each episode is so deep and dense it is extraordinary. It slightly annoys me that it's so good; it's almost unbeatable as a TV show.
~ Richard Herring
Her belief is built purely out of hope, piled on top of nothing, solid as smoke. Her worry, on the other hand, is dense and sharp-cornered as a lump of rock.
~ Tana French
Flan is really all about the caramel. Sure, when made right, the custard will be creamy and rich without being dense or heavy, with a little jiggle that melts in your mouth.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
Grief from the war casts a shadow that at times was dense and at others seemed as pale as a length of gauze, but it was never gone.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
~ Edgar Wright
He was very obliging, and as he handed me into a fly after superintending the removal of my boxes, I asked him whether there was a great fire anywhere? For the streets were so full of dense brown smoke that scarcely anything was to be seen. "Oh, dear no, miss," he said. "This is a London particular." I had never heard of such a thing.
~ Charles Dickens
According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. - The World And The Door
~ o.henry
honey, mysterious, rich and massive honey, dense aroma, liquid light that falls in thick drops
~ Pablo Neruda
Sometimes these spirits have been more real to me than people, more real than God. They fill silence with their weight, dense and warm, like bread dough rising under cloth.
~ Christina Baker Kline
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.
~ Carol Bly
I first read 'The Lord of the Rings' as an adolescent. It's a dense novel, a sprawling, complex monster of a book populated with a prolific number of characters caught up in a narrative structure that, frankly, does not lend itself to conventional storytelling.
~ Peter Jackson
Winter was not surprised to discover that the rainforest was horrifying and awful.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.
~ George Harrison
And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they're not baselines, that contain and direct its infinite expansion inward, that make tennis like chess on the run, beautiful and infinitely dense? Schtitt's
~ David Foster Wallace