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Quotes About Scribe

To the Royal Scribe of the Metropolis from Haran ben Philip Levias of the Jewish Council. I attest that Chaya, daughter of my sister, Yaltha, died in the month of Epeiph of the 32nd year of the Emperor Augustus Caesar. As her guardian and kinsman, I request that her name be entered among those who have died. She is not default in the payment of taxes being the age of two years at the time of her death.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
it is the man of the night who invents, the man of the morning is nothing but a scribe.
~ François Augiéras
Imager isn't set up yet," Prof said. "So we'll do this the old-fashioned way. Mizzy, you're low man on the team roster. You get scribe duties." She hopped up from her chair and actually seemed excited by the prospect. She took a marker and wrote Reckoner Super Plan for Killing Regalia at the top of the sheet. Each i was dotted with a heart.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Acquiesce, to the messenger. Acquiesce, to and for the complot in the Hieratic tongue. Theirs. Into Their tongue, the counterscript, my confession in Theirs. Into Theirs. To scribe to make hear the words, to make sound the words, the words, the words made flesh.
~ Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
~ Nanci Griffith
Find for your pencils A way to mark your memory
~ Carl Sandburg
Wait, Butch said, thinking about the glymera. Marissa's mated now, right? I mean, even if I die, she will have had a mate right? Death wish, V said under his breath. Fucking Death Wish Boy we got over here. The Scribe Virgin seemed flat-out amazed I should kill you now.
~ J.R. Ward
She knew of a scribe dressed all in white who penned letters to the dead (and delivered them), and an old storyteller who sold ideas to writers at the price of a year of their lives. Karou had seen tourists laugh as they signed his contract, not believing it for a second, but she believed it. Hadn't she seen stranger things?
~ Laini Taylor
Ho there, scribe. I see that you write well enough. Can you also read?' 'Obviously you cannot, boy,' he replied. 'For if you were able to read, you would see that my sign' -he pointed to a piece of paper pinned to the wall above his head - 'says: Reading and Writing - Careful and Discreet- the Sinistro Scribe.
~ Theresa Breslin
The author of what I describe is not myself, it is the Other. First of all it is you, it is the woman, it is the queen, it is the Child, it is a person who is greater than I and who surpasses you as well, whom you do not know. I am your scribe.
~ Helene Cixous
The conclusion of the letter is marked by Paul taking the reed pen from the amanuensis and writing the conclusion in his own hand.
~ Thomas R. Schreiner
Mic is volcanic, rhymes spread across the planet, I send out the scribe, now the vibes gigantic.
~ Unknown
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple! My master sues to her, and she hath taught her suitor, He being her pupil, to become her tutor. O excellent device! was there ever heard a better, That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter? Valentine. How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself? Speed. Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason.
~ William Shakespeare
I studied journalism, though I never really became a scribe.
~ Nithya Menen
Cú Chulainn, the greatest of the champions of Conchobhar Mac Nessa, King of Ulaidh, sat with other members of the Craobh Ríoga, the warriors of the Royal Branch, bodyguards to the king. It should be explained that the Craobh Ríoga, because of the tired eyesight of an ancient scribe, was mis-transcribed long ago as the Craobh Ruadha, or Red Branch warriors. We, however, shall forgive the scribe's mistake and return those ancient warriors to their real appellation
~ Unknown
La Société française allait être l'historien, je ne devais être que le secrétaire.
~ Honore de Balzac
wretchedly and treacherously', in the opinion of the anonymous scribe
~ Unknown
The scribe is regarded as one who hears, For the hearer becomes a doer.
~ Unknown
Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;
~ 2 Samuel 8:17
Sheva was the scribe; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
~ 2 Samuel 20:25
Then they called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.
~ 2 Kings 18:18
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
~ 2 Kings 22:3
And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
~ 2 Kings 22:9
Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
~ 2 Kings 22:10