No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
I am beginning to understand, " said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...
-
Unknown
It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept...
-
Jerry Spinelli
Civilization is vastly overrated.
-
Patricia Briggs
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
-
Erma Bombeck
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they...
-
Daniel Quinn
More Quotes By Lawrence Clark Powell
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
