I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. The food pyramid is based on a totally irrelevant nutrient. — Ron Rosedale Copy Share Image
When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We… — Zahi Hawass Copy Share Image
Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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
Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow—it's not all going to be over with a big… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop… — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
No building is better than its structural foundation, and no man (woman) is better than his (her) mental foundation. When I prepared… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've… — Michael Dumontier Copy Share Image
British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids, and archaeological research has showed us this, had little… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
