Quotes About Papyrus

#1. With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

Groucho Marx

#2. Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.

Zahi Hawass

#3. There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".

Gerald Mills

#4. Boundary vs. Horizon
Our imagination is not a boundary, it's a horizon.
It moves with us and is therefore limitless.

Beryl Dov

#5. Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?"
She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?

Maureen Johnson

#6. At the sum of all fears, the only thing that is painted ... is a reflection of you.

Lionel Suggs

#7. If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.

John Updike

#8. Everywhere I go is the river. I'm following it or it's following me. I know, suddenly, what I must do.
Meredith

Gillian Flynn

#9. There's nothing here," Carter said.
"What do you want?" I asked. "We've got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue.

Rick Riordan

#10. The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Marshall McLuhan

#11. My your balls wither away and you develop and allergy to Viagra and all it's counter-parts
(Sophie to Royd)

Iris Johansen

#12. Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#13. The river, it's banks as yet untamed wandered languidly through thickets of rush and papyrus. Ibises waded in the shallows; in the deeps hippos rose and sank slowly like pickled eggs.

Terry Pratchett