Scribes Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
— Aristotle
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the…
— M. King Hubbert
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
— Tanith Lee
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The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.
— Maurice Blanchot
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But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention,…
— Larry Brooks
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Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.
— Eileen Myles
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... men... who say that there is no one in our times and in our midst who is able to keep the Gospel commandments and…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when…
— Mark Twain
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Mic is volcanic, rhymes spread across the planet, I send out the scribe, now the vibes gigantic.
— Louis Eric Barrier
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Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for…
— Leslie Jamison
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Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper;…
— Thomas Berry
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The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in…
— Eric Hoffer
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
— Alexander Pope
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It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the…
— Ajay Naidu
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In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics;…
— Will Self
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Zia," I said, "that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have?" Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst…
— Rick Riordan
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For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who…
— John Keats
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Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I cannae believe you let me touch you.†His voice grew hoarse. “I shall remember this for all my nights.†Tears speared into her eyes.…
— J R Ward
Who Wrote These Scribes Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Scribes Quotes as follows: