Dense Quotes

• Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

  Adam Clarke

  Humility, Pride, Assuming

  Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.307

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• I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Literature, Stories

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• 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.

  Julio Verne

  Eye, Black, Able

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.32, Jules Verne

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• Como el escenario de la vida sería más el frío vacío del espacio que la cálida y densa atmósfera de los planetas, cada vez se sentiría más la ventaja de no contener materia orgánica en absoluto, para ser independiente de ambas condiciones.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Independent, Space, Atmosphere

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

  Lynn Abbey

  Desánimo

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• Quería algo muy denso, algo que se sostuviera mucho tiempo y más piezas de madera que fueran suaves, dulces, para un sonido más meloso.

  Les Paul

  Sweet, Long, Sound

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• 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

  Fun, Philosophy, Book

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• Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen?
  I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Heart, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Matter, Ghost, Invincible

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• To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

  Ivars Peterson

  Math, Ideas, World

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• Ignorancia, intolerancia, egoísmo, autoafirmación, percepción opaca, cabezonería densa y lamentable -y una inconsciencia casi patética de todo ello-, eso era yo a los diecinueve y a los veinte años.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorancia, Yo, Percepción

  Mark Twain (1929). "Mark Twain's Letters", p.156, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry McMurtry

  Sadness, People, Sorrow

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• La humanidad es notoriamente demasiado densa para leer las señales que Dios envía de vez en cuando. Necesitamos que los tambores suenen en nuestros oídos, antes de que despertemos de nuestro trance y oigamos la advertencia y veamos que perderse en todo, es la única manera de encontrarse a sí mismo.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Way, Ears

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

  Antón Chéjov

  Philosophy, Hands, Guy

  "Ionych". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

  John Lydon

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• A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Cute, Mean, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Heart, Rocks

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6634, Delphi Classics

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• La persona atraída por la danza como profesión es notoriamente poco intelectual. Piensa con los músculos, le encanta expresarse con el cuerpo, no con palabras; el análisis le resulta doloroso y aburrido; y es una criatura de ebullición física.

  Doris Humphrey

  Bailar, Estúpido, Pensar

  Doris Humphrey (1959). "El arte de hacer bailes"

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• The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

  Andrew Bird

  Feet, Down And, Looks

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest ... pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

  Isak Dinesen

  Elephants, End Of The World, Forests

  Isak Dinesen (1987). "Memorias de África", Crown Pub

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• So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Love Is, Oneness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.75, Penguin

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• Al principio soñaba con ovejas, con ir a la escuela, con gatos que bebían leche. Poco a poco soñó con ovejas azules, con ir a la escuela en medio del bosque, con gatos que bebían leche en platillos dorados. Y sus sueños se hicieron cada vez más densos y adquirieron colores difíciles de diluir en palabras.

  Clarice Lispector

  Dream, Drinking, School

  "Near to the Wild Heart" by Clarice Lispector, (p. 43), 1943.

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• You don't necessarily have to go a long way in New Zealand to be in some pretty dense and scary bush.

  Sam Neill

  Long, Scary, Way

  Fuente: www.denofgeek.com

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• La felicidad comprime el tiempo, lo hace denso y brillante, de bolsillo.

  Ann Patchett

  Ann Patchett (2012). “Run”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

  Emile Zola

  Confusion, Mind, Peers

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