#dense

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. ↗

— Max Lerner

#centuries #condense #excellence #greatness #hear

The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#attention #book #dense #film #foreign

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it. ↗

— Ben Okri

#came #change #collapsed #denser #got

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#condensed #experience #generation #his way #incontrovertible

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ↗

— Robert Southey

#condensed #deeper #more #sunbeams #words

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#atmosphere #both #cold #conditions #containing

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ↗

— Robert Southey

#burn #condensed #deeper #more #pungent

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. ↗

— John Dryden

#burn #condensed #deeper #more #pungent

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. ↗

— Jules Verne

#after #alone #been #black #could

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke. ↗

— Tim Vine

#always #because #condense #confidence #getting