#volume

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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


#camera #done #drawings #i #i can

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.


Hervey Allen


#been #continent #cultural #first #gathered

I don't think many people have ever read the report. Who has read 26 volumes of this case? How many read the summary? If you read the summary, it takes a long time.


John Sherman Cooper


#ever #how #i #long #long time

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.


Hernando Cortes


#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.


Gay Talese


#always #bound #considered #down #even

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.


Hans Frank


#american #army #arrested #destroy #diary

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


#bought #chord #day #electric #electric guitar

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.


William E. Gladstone


#reticence #three #volumes

I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.


James Loeb


#after #early #half #i #inconsiderable

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


Don Marquis


#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand