#volume

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

— Johnny Thunders

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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. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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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

#always #angry #because #come #contradictions

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

#clear #egg #finishes #following #form

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

— Susan Sontag

#after #alone #been #day #depends

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

— David Grayson

#everything #grasped #heart #him #his

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ↗

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

#like #two #volumes

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. ↗

— George Saunders

#irony #just #up #volume

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

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