I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid… — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Even after rowing in all these pieces, it's often hard to determine who will be selected because the decisive factor in seat… — Chris Ahrens Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is… — Enele Sopoaga Copy Share Image
In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind - to reach the top. But… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A counter-attack can only arise when you make a mistake. That's why there are rules. A horizontal pass? Prohibited. In my line-up… — Johan Cruijff Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter. — Andrew Delbanco Copy Share Image
It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment. — Adam Gilchrist Copy Share Image
It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter — Lewis Strauss Copy Share Image
If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me. — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
If Americans in 2100 came to see 12 meters sea-level rise as inevitable by 2200, who can even begin to fathom how… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
If all the stars and galaxies in the universe today were smoothed out into a uniform sea of atoms, there would only… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably… — Rula Jebreal Copy Share Image
“When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“I'd like to be a light meter." "A what?" "A light meter. Like a photographer uses. Tinks had one this morning." Aidan… — Amber Dermont Copy Share Image
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Paralysis, anxiety stomachs, arthritis and many ills and aberrations have been relieved by auditing them. An E-Meter shows them up and makes… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image