Quotes about Volume

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes. Votes: 4

Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. Votes: 4

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. Votes: 4

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin. Votes: 4

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume. Votes: 4

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. Votes: 4

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. Votes: 4

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age. Votes: 4

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Votes: 4

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Votes: 4

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music. Votes: 4

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow. Votes: 4

Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth. Votes: 4

To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. Votes: 4

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. Votes: 4

Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA. Votes: 4

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world. Votes: 4

Volume grows spatially slower than scaling. Votes: 3

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher. Votes: 3

I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes. Votes: 3

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity. Votes: 3

They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath. Votes: 3

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work. Votes: 3

When I approached Volume 1 of Lucid, I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show. Votes: 3

Volume in your hair is sexy, and it doesn't necessarily have to be that Brigitte Bardot kind of volume - it's just that nice texture up top that gives it some life and body to it. Votes: 3

When I approached Volume 1 of 'Lucid,' I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show. Votes: 3

I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie. Votes: 3

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. Votes: 2

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume. Votes: 2

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. Votes: 2

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. Votes: 2

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies. Votes: 2

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume. Votes: 2

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud. Votes: 2

We are the country that has attracted the biggest volume of foreign investment in southeastern Europe in the past few years. Romania doesn't need to beat itself, believing that it is a second-class citizen. Votes: 2

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. Votes: 2

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. Votes: 2

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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 or obscured by mortal power. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition. Votes: 2

I'm really lucky in the sense that my hair holds curl awesomely well. It looks the same at 10 P.M. as it does at 10 A.M. One of my favorite products is Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray. I can get a lot of volume with it. I'm from the South - I like big hair. Votes: 2

Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume. Votes: 0

Within the book and volume of thy brain... Votes: 0

If you can't win by reason, go for volume. Votes: 0

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Votes: 0

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge. Votes: 0

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. Votes: 0

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Votes: 0

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. Votes: 0

Donald Trump lies with astonishing frequency and in stunning volume. Votes: 0

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels. Votes: 0

Nature is a volume of which God is the author. Votes: 0

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read. Votes: 0

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied. Votes: 0

New York is like America with the volume turned up to 10. Votes: 0

Never think of the surface except as an extension of a volume. Votes: 0

I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high. Votes: 0

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't? Votes: 0

I'm always throwing out ideas, so it's not creativity, it's just volume. Votes: 0

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S. Votes: 0

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content. Votes: 0

The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. Votes: 0

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media. Votes: 0

You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training. Votes: 0

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all. Votes: 0

Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions. Votes: 0

I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people. Votes: 0

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom. Votes: 0

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program. Votes: 0

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. Votes: 0

The weight of your words is more important than the volume of your voice! Votes: 0

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. Votes: 0

When I turn down the volume, it's amazing how much I can actually hear. Votes: 0

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs. Votes: 0

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume Votes: 0

My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume. Votes: 0

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer. Votes: 0

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. Votes: 0

I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it's a big book. Votes: 0

I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol. Votes: 0

In volume terms, the Tasmanian wine industry is as tiny as its potential is large. Votes: 0

The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up. Votes: 0

And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume. Votes: 0

People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages. Votes: 0

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. Votes: 0

We're a high-volume, low-margin business, so we decided to reinvent our own approach to health care. Votes: 0

Happy salesmen not only multiply their volume of business and their income, they also multiply themselves. Votes: 0

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart. Votes: 0

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience. Votes: 0

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all. Votes: 0

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before Votes: 0

Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access. Votes: 0

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. Votes: 0

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science. Votes: 0

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words. Votes: 0

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution. Votes: 0

Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word. Votes: 0

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist. Votes: 0

So when your mom walks in, turn down the volume and act like you're doing your homework. Votes: 0

The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does. Votes: 0

Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color. Votes: 0

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It's the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared. Votes: 0

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens. Votes: 0

The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered, Votes: 0

I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get. Votes: 0

We realized we had high-volume marketplace as a platform. Anyone can come in and buy with a subscription. Votes: 0

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do. Votes: 0

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents. Votes: 0

There is a strong possibility I will release another volume of ARTPOP and I'm really hoping that it's soon. Votes: 0

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. Votes: 0

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours. Votes: 0

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight Votes: 0

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance. Votes: 0

In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation. Votes: 0

You look different. You look unsettling.' "˜You look like you,' he said. "˜You with the volume turned up. Votes: 0

My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume. Votes: 0

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair Votes: 0

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. Votes: 0

I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. Donald [Trump] supported the invasion of Iraq. Votes: 0

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight. Votes: 0

The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy! Votes: 0

A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway. Votes: 0

The great thing about Adele is if you put her on top volume, you actually sound like her while you're singing. Votes: 0

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Votes: 0

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. Votes: 0

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend. Votes: 0

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume. Votes: 0

Let me assure you that I am not satisfied making $40-$50 million on the same volume of beer (as) CUB sells. Votes: 0

Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal. Votes: 0

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density. Votes: 0

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence. Votes: 0

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants. Votes: 0

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. Votes: 0

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Votes: 0

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. Votes: 0

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Votes: 0

We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that. Votes: 0

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. Votes: 0

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. Votes: 0

If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you. Votes: 0

At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have. Votes: 0

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page. Votes: 0

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information. Votes: 0

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. Votes: 0

One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures. Votes: 0

When you have a high-volume magazine or an assault weapon, you're not hunting deer or protecting your home; you're out to hunt people. Votes: 0

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Votes: 0

I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength. Votes: 0

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. Votes: 0

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg. Votes: 0

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame. Votes: 0

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble. Votes: 0

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest. Votes: 0

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief. Votes: 0

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Votes: 0

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief. Votes: 0

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice. Votes: 0

My hair dries straight naturally, so I'm always trying to find anything to give it volume or give it a little bit of bounce. Votes: 0

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. Votes: 0

I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format. Votes: 0

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything. Votes: 0

Players will be able to adjust the volume from 1 to 100 in increments of 1. You could play the game 100 times and have an entirely different experience. Votes: 0

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance. Votes: 0

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help. Votes: 0

We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored. Votes: 0

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves. Votes: 0

A Storm of Swords' is a massive volume, and it seemed like it would be shortchanging it to try to cram it into ten episodes. Votes: 0

It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit. Votes: 0

From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf. Votes: 0

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them. Votes: 0

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. Votes: 0

I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world. Votes: 0

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices... Votes: 0

I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017. Votes: 0

When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time. Votes: 0

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir Votes: 0

Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive. Votes: 0

Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal. Votes: 0

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it. Votes: 0

The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence! Votes: 0

What is new is the multiplying reach and volume of the Internet, concentrating the toxicity of destructive emotions and circulating them in the political bloodstream with unparalleled velocity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it. Votes: 0

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work. Votes: 0

Decades of providing technology in growing volume and at decreasing costs have driven great gains for developing nations, communities and people worldwide, but there is still much to do. Votes: 0

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. Votes: 0

They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years. Votes: 0

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed. Votes: 0

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied. Votes: 0

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume." Votes: 0

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books. Votes: 0

The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume. Votes: 0

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that. Votes: 0

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is? Votes: 0

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb. Votes: 0

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't. Votes: 0

I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat. Votes: 0

I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume. Votes: 0

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton. Votes: 0

The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch Votes: 0

Generally, a rally will have staying power, technicians say, if, in addition to price movements, it has heavy trading volume and breadth, meaning that several stocks rise for each stock that falls. Votes: 0

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick. Votes: 0

The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices; that neither exportation nor importation can occur if there are no differences in prices to make trade profitable. Votes: 0

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history. Votes: 0

At its best, Purple Ronnie puts little thoughts out there, on very high-volume selling items, that people use to make very personal connections with one another. And I'm actually very proud of that. Votes: 0

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade. Votes: 0

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era. Votes: 0

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain. Votes: 0

The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem. Votes: 0

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. Votes: 0

You can see that there is an increase in the volume of freight that moves by air. And so, we have got to solve the problem by making sure that that is done properly. Votes: 0

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment. Votes: 0

You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you're looking for can only be found Inside of you Votes: 0

It's not volume, nor is it calories that we biologically hunger for. It's micronutrients. And until we receive enough, the hunger signal will continually urge us to eat. Thankfully, there's a simple fix: nutrient-dense food. Votes: 0

My hair is very fine, so I use Tigi Bed Head Small Talk before I blow dry for volume, and I'm a firm believer in Tigi Rockaholic dry shampoo to keep volume throughout the day. Votes: 0

In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume. Votes: 0

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose. Votes: 0

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves. Votes: 0

My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts. Votes: 0

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series. Votes: 0

As an individual learns and practices higher meditation techniques, a tremendous volume of energy and creativity flows through them. If they direct some of that energy towards their career, then naturally they will become successful. Votes: 0