Volume Quotes

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton

Nature, Human, Old

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

Through, Same, Start

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

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Waiting, Down, Rose

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Roberto Burle Marx

Artist, Color, Intentions

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie

Life, Another, Write

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.
Robert Plant

Old, Making, Fantastic

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
George Saunders

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Herman Melville

Great, Book, Though

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
David Hockney

Done, Tell, Often

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
Ace Frehley

Love, Friend, Guitar

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.
Paul Theroux

Book, Etiquette, Australian

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag

Alone, After, Able

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
James A. Garfield

Money, Country, Industry

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.
Ani DiFranco

Beautiful, True, Down

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley

Saying, May, Difficult

I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Anybody, Recognize

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

Good, Worth, Biography

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Jose Bergamin

Different, Weight, Loses

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.
Edward Norton

Angry, Feeling, Wonderful

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

Life, Give, Guitar

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality.
Ron Wyden

Change, Quality, Healthy

Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.
Robert Winston

Through, Matter, Three

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.
Hedda Hopper

Quality, Voice, Singing

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

Cannot, Against, Natural

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
Sydney Smith

Time, Mind, Nothing

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
Delia Smith

Rather, Cooking, Weight

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
Zack de la Rocha

Sacrifice, Give, Band

What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.
Marlo Thomas

Money, Tomorrow, Trying

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