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“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”
Mark Twain
“Within the book and volume of my brain.”
William Shakespeare
“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.”
“[At first, I just randomly turned the pages. Page 95, Volume 1, Calvin and Hobbes are sitting under a tree.] Do you think there is a God? ... Well, somebody's out to get me.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
Don Marquis
“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.”
Zack de la Rocha
“Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases”
Jerry Brown
“I was so little inspired by violin instruction at the Guildhall School that I kept in the cloakroom a volume of concertos edited by Joachim, which I would retrieve before my lesson and read in class. And that would be my lesson for the day.”
William Primrose
“[B]y taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.”
Gilbert Highet
