Constant Volume Heat

Famous quotes containing the words constant, volume and/or heat:

    “By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
    A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
    And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    “And all the great traditions of the Past
    They saw reflected in the coming time.

    And thus forever with reverted look
    The mystic volume of the world they read,
    Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
    Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “And suddenly, to be dying
    Is not a little or mean or cheap thing,
    Only wearying, the heat unbearable ...”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)