Arthur P. Dietrich Quotes & Sayings

A small brazier glowed near the monk's left hand. On a lecturn before him lay pots of paints, brushes, a quill, a pen, a knife, a sizeable handbell, the tooth of some animal
and a piece of parchment.
It was the parchment that commanded the room. Until he saw it Len didn't realize how starved he had been of colour. Villagers dressed in various shades of brown and beige, like their furniture and fields and now, here, was an irruption of the rainbow, as if a charm of goldfinches had landed on the manuscript and been transfixed. — Diana Norman

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff. — Robert Crumb

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets. — Karel Reisz

Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court. — Pete Sampras

It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living. — Manly Hall

Books are not just things, but dynamic artifacts, milestones showing where the road took a sudden turn on our individual journeys -- our very individual journeys, since a book that changed one person's life is another person's dreaded English assignment. There's no rhyme or reason to what impacts whom except the alchemy of timing, temperament, and title. — Wendy Welch

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. — Marshall McLuhan

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end. — Sarah Dessen