If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around… — Mohamed Al-Fayed 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
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
“Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I think that if I have a chance to go back, why not just go back all the way in history to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great… — Rick Riordan 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
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 Sicilian Defence was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered. The… — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren't built, the books that weren't written, the songs that weren't sung. Stop letting your… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
When I finally got my break in TV, as a staff writer, I always wanted to be at the top of that… — Ronald D. Moore 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
I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able… — Amanda Palmer 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
I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know… — Jean-Luc Bilodeau Copy Share Image
When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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
Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“They do not like evidence like that, anything too definite because our first instinct is to find flaws and debunk. They want… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I look at anything in nature and how things work-the stars, the pyramids-and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding… — Horace Copy Share Image
Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
That particular story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] was written during the dark days of the Bush years. George W. Bush had… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating… — J. Richard Clarke 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 found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus…” quote by Zahi Hawass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16e/zahi-hawass-29602_bottom_i-have-found-a-shaft-going-29-meters-95_959795.jpg)
![“The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those little pyramids, can be packed together in all different ways. And depending on how they're packed together.If you Google blue ice, as I did just while your caller was asking his…” quote by Ira Flatow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24a/ira-flatow-37434_asking_the-different-colors-of-water-again-refe_2087733.jpg)
![“That particular story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] was written during the dark days of the Bush years. George W. Bush had just been "re-elected" (or elected for the first time, depending on how you count the stolen election) and it seemed like the horror of his presidency would last forever.” quote by Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c54/alexander-weinstein-17341_ass_that-particular-story-the-pyramid-and-th_1455453.jpg)
