Scribal Quotes

#1. As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.

Kate Williams

#2. I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.

Anne Rice

#3. Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

Marshall McLuhan

#4. What makes the role of a Scribal Watchman distinct is the commission to transpose God's word through use of the prophetic pen in a way that unites others to pray.

Deborah M. Taylor

#5. Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

Mallory Ortberg

#6. I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

Sonam Kapoor

#7. Those who are most able to buy what you have to sell are those who most demand that you agree with them.

Herschell Gordon Lewis

#8. Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Plutarch

#10. Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

Nancy Gibbs

#11. Time heals all wounds or Time wounds all heels. Take your pick ... oh, life's small choices.

Carol Morgan

#12. I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

Frank Gehry

#13. I had to lift players' expectations. They should never give in. I said that to them all the time: "If you give in once, you'll give in twice.

Alex Ferguson

#14. I wouldn't say I'm a slut. I'm just in touch with my inner slut. And, let me tell you, she rocks.

Belle Aurora

#15. It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' "
"Me, too," I said.

Laurell K. Hamilton