Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

“Life isn't about finding ypurself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.. Now is the time to undertand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie

[Lilith7]

“We do not remember days. We remember moments.”
Cesare Parvese

“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth,spontaneity,life, beauty, & above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality & shits quantity.”
William S Burroughs

[Lilith7]

“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is snapping the whip, who is saying no, and who is saying go. Censorship's bottom line is this: if the novel Christine offends me, I don't want just to make sure it's kept from my kid; I want to make sure it's kept from your kid, as well, and all the kids. This bit of intellectual arrogance, undemocratic and as old as time, is best expressed this way: "If it's bad for me and my family, it's bad for everyone's family."
Yet when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea, I'm never much disturbed not as a citizen, not as a writer, not even as a schoolteacher . . . which I used to be. What I tell kids is, Don't get mad, get even. Don't spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned. Read whatever they're trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that's exactly what you need to know.”
Stephen King


“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory.Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long, that nation will begin to forget what it is & what it was. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting/”
Milan Kundera

[Lilith7]

“Libraries should be open to all, except the censor.”
JFK

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
Joyce Carol Oates

[Lilith7]

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”
Abraham Lincoln


“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
JFK

[Lilith7]

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus

“Fascism is cured by reading, & racism is cured by travelling'
Miguel de Unamuno

[Lilith7]

“I have discovered why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.”
Mirian Defensor Santiago

“You can never get a book long enough or a cup of tea large enough to suit me.”
C.S. Lewis

[Lilith7]

“Classic. A book which people praise & don't read.”
Mark Twain


“So please,oh please we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, & in its place ypu can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
Roald Dahl

[Lilith7]

“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”
Benjamin Franklin

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw

[Lilith7]

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Show me a family of readers & I will show you the people who move the world.”
Napoleon Bonarparte

[Lilith7]

f you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.”
J .K. Rowling


“There is no frigate like a book to take us Lands away.”
Emily Dickinson

[Lilith7]

“I guess there are never enough books.”
John Steinbeck

“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting & wonderful; & learning to be a reader gives a terrfici advantage.”
Roald Dahl

[Lilith7]

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell


“The measure of our success will be the condition in which we leave the world for the next generation.”
Robert Redford

[Lilith7]

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past & no future.”
Ray Bradbury


“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”
Banksy

[Lilith7]

"A library is a hospital for the mind.”
Alvin Toffler

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling,a way of looking at things – which you had thought speical & particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else,a person you have never met,, even someone who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out & taken yours.'
Alan Bennett

[Lilith7]

“In a world committed to complete insanity,having a dark sense of humour is a necessary survival skill.”
Anon

“No one man can terrorise a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
Edward R. Murrow

[Lilith7]

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
Edward R. Murrow


“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”
Edward R. Murrow

[Lilith7]

“Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.” “Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”
Edward R. Murrow


“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”
Edward R. Murrow

[Lilith7]

“To be persuasive, We must be believable,
To be believable, We must be credible,
To be credible, We must be truthful.”
Edward R. Murrow


“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”
Edward R. Murrow

[Lilith7]

“The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.”
Edward R. Murrow


“We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late. ”
Edward R. Murrow