Illuminated Manuscript Quotes

#1. In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man's life through not one, but one hundred different books - and book jackets ... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript.

Jessica Helfand

#2. If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. She might be the only girl I've ever met who still hasn't learned to sacrifice bodily comfort for fashion's sake.

Tim Tharp

#5. We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter.

Bille August

#6. I believe only in the religion which spreads the word of nonjudgmental love.

Debasish Mridha

#7. To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

Edith Wharton

#8. I always sit through the credits. I am always the last one out of any theater. I even make a point of being last. I stay in my seat until everyone else has shuffled past. Then I turn my back, too, on the comforting dark.

Ron Koertge

#9. I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

Jason Clarke

#10. The minority evolves whereas the majority just revolves

S.E. Sever

#11. Men are mad and gods are madder.

George R R Martin

#12. He was a hateful terrorist who will be missed by all.

Jack Straw

#13. I have less compassion than the average human.

Curtis Jackson

#14. I only make movies to finance my fishing.

Lee Marvin

#15. Once you had your man, you let all your accomplishments go. You don't sew or sing any more, you haven't illuminated a manuscript in years - and

Peter S. Beagle