Top 16 Papyri Quotes
#1. Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.
Robert Harris
#2. The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#3. Because these papyri transport ideas," he replied. "And ideas have power.
Paulo Coelho
#4. Egyptian papyri mention temple attendants who cleansed patients and implemented regimes of diet and exercise.
Steve Parker
#5. The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
Simon Schama
#6. Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.
E.L. Doctorow
#7. You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.
Glen Duncan
#8. When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good for that, Masha. They'll always want you working, when you're not softening their fall into bed at the end of the day.
Catherynne M Valente
#9. The spaces I want to be in are nurturing and soft and saturated with color. Our cities don't have enough of that, and as humans we need it.
Janet Echelman
#11. The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists' recordings.
John Seabrook
#12. I have a very dark sense of humor.
Andy Dick
#13. I want to know why. Why everything. I don't know the answers, but a few days ago I didn't know there were questions.
Terry Pratchett
#14. What should girls read?" Caroline asked, as Anna entered the library. "Everything," Anna replied. A
Joanne Dobson
#15. The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#16. I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
Rachel Platten
