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Books Quotes by Carl Sagan
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny…
- Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
- Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history.…
- All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single…
- An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and…
- A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance…
- Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
- Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
- If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of…
- Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of…
- What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny,…
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine