Quote by Nicholson Baker

Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I…

— Rick Riordan

“When they happen across an Adventurer from Mexico, and the ancient City he has discover'd beneath the Earth, where thousands of Mummies occupy the…

— Thomas Pynchon

I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, "Be sure,…

— Jack Handey

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

— Larry Niven

“Haven't I heard of men more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from Egypt in cases covered with pictures?" "You…

— Jules Verne

“They were suddenly saying to people with nothing but paper representations of wealth, “Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think paper was so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The parallels between preserving food and preserving mummies were apparently not lost on posterity. In the nineteenth century, when mummies from Saqqara and Thebes…

— Mark Kurlansky

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out…

— Issey Miyake

“cardboard toilet paper rolls strewn across the”

— Rachel Renée Russell

“Look at all those cul-de-sacs, the streets that turn in on themselves all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper…

— John Green

The Egyptians had a particularly nasty way of getting rid of people they felt had no consequence. Instead of embalming them, they simply constructed…

— Perry Brass