Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

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.

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel read 2 000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

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

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.

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.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane the automobile the computer - says little about his intelligence but speaks volumes about his laziness.

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

If a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

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.

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.

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

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

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