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I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth. -- Jonathan Swift
Bulk collection means all of your communications are being secretly intercepted. They are being stolen as they cross India, and they're being stored in these silos so that they can be rifled through at the convenience of secret agents, basically. -- Edward Snowden
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. -- Sigmund Freud
And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business. -- Alphonso Jackson
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. -- Mercy Otis Warren
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. -- Walt Whitman
I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing. -- Jack Quaid
Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties. -- Andre Geim
I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense. -- Apolo Ohno
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. -- Howard Nemerov
English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be. -- Zadie Smith
I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that. -- Lucinda Williams
The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out. -- Hugh Jackman
The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really. -- Ron White
My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. -- Helen Reddy
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. -- Hernan Cortes
How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked. -- Rand Paul
I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out. -- Arjun Rampal
I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time. -- Jamie Dornan
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it. -- Mike Huckabee
Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it. -- David Rubenstein
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share. -- A. N. Wilson
I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is. -- David Miliband
I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere. -- Mark Cuban
The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings. -- Lance Loud
The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions are right - noises are commonplace. And in some cases, these noisy worlds may ring with the sounds of life - the bleats and bellows of creatures we have never seen, but may someday discover. -- Seth Shostak
I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people. -- Francis Chan
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. -- Thomas Jefferson
I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy. -- Ian Somerhalder
The bulk of my input comes from my peers. -- Bob Weir
You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate. -- Bill Watterson
The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids. -- Bill Gates
The bulk of government is not legislation but administration. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. -- Helen Keller
We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality. -- Robertson Davies
God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil. -- Wolfgang Pauli
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking. -- Jonathan Swift
The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34. -- Erwin McManus
The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. -- Irving Kirsch
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. -- Virginia Woolf
We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans' records. -- Ted Cruz
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening. -- Frank Moore Colby
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us. -- Emma Goldman
That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker. -- Aristotle
I don't really need bulk, just strength. I can get strong without putting on weight. -- LaMarcus Aldridge
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. -- Steven Chu
For me, it's not about building bulk in my muscles; it's about staying tiny, strong, and lean. -- Keauna McLaughlin
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is. -- Joe Mansueto
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. -- Deborah Bull
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets. -- Orville Redenbacher
On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with. -- Paul Tonko
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. -- George Orwell
Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses. -- Jim Gerlach
Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses. -- Jim Gerlach
The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way. -- Stacey Snider
How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her...sweetly. -- J.R. Ward
When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys. -- Nicole Eggert
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. -- Roger Mudd
Seen on a night in November How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs, Autumn, evanescent, wan, The moon. -- Adelaide Crapsey
I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am. -- Hilary Swank
I'm playing against men who are bigger and stronger than I'm used to. I've definitely got to bulk up at some point. -- Patrick Kane
We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation. -- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government... -- Calvin Coolidge
For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs. -- Jeff Goodell
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force. -- Henry Watson Fowler
The kernel, the soul"?let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances"?is plagiarism, -- Jonathan Lethem
I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film. -- Troy Duffy
The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience. -- C. S. Lewis
I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man. -- Cody Wilson
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them. -- Linus Torvalds
I'm very conscious of the fact the directing career has taken some odd turns. Maybe there's enough bulk where I'm now pigeonholed in the 'eclectic box.' -- Kenneth Branagh
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact. -- H. G. Wells
More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused. -- Howard Schultz
The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product. -- Rob Walton
If it turns out that Barry Bonds used steroids to bulk up and add muscle mass, he could get four to eight years as governor of California -- Argus Hamilton
I ain't thinking of tomorrow, tomorrow thinks of me like a garcia, bulk of money on tha counter, I told her, baby I see you as my cashier -- Lil Wayne
It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet. -- Gena Showalter
The bulk of life on Earth lives in a peaceful place where the temperature is stable. There's hunting going on, but it's very civilized, like a slow ballet. -- Graham Hawkes
What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens. -- Ted Cruz
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York. -- Mercy Otis Warren
The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves. -- Joost Meerloo
It is only common sense to recognize that the great bulk of Americans, whether Republican or Democrat, face many common problems and agree on a number of basic objectives. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population. -- Herbert A. Simon
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York -- Mercy Otis Warren
Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world. -- Stefanie Brook Trout
We brought with hus in the ship a cat, a most amicable cat and greatly loved by us; but he grew to great bulk through the eating of fish. -- Brendan
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares! -- Mark Twain
I don't think that the United States has the bulk of the responsibility. I really put that on [Bashar] Assad and on the Iraqis and on the region itself. -- Hillary Clinton
My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon. -- Claire Danes
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority. -- Julius Wellhausen
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view. -- Anthony Standen
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity. -- John Dewey
We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection. -- Edward Snowden
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment. -- Leo Kottke
Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known. -- W. W. Sawyer
If I need to bulk up for a role, I will do more weights. If I need to slim down for something, I will do more cardio. That's usually how it goes. -- Dolph Lundgren
In a perfect world we don't want to be overly dependent on any single asset or be so dependent on the cycle or where one asset is the bulk of this company. -- James Packer
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. -- Bruce Campbell
Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I find it bitterly ironic that the bulk of the money a medical-malpractice jury awarded to Terri [Schaivo] for use in making her better instead went into Mr. Felos's pocket to make her dead. -- Wesley J. Smith
Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy. -- Lewis Schiff
Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes. -- Willis Regier
I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email. -- Nora Roberts
The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list. -- Daniel Yergin
However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home. -- Benton MacKaye
It's ironic, really, because I've spent the bulk of my career making my living in a very commercial realm: network television. And yet, my sensibilities don't necessarily line up with how I pay my rent. -- Tim Daly
MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . . -- Ambrose Bierce

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