We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or… — Zhang Xin 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not… — Alexander Weinstein 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
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
Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years.… — Peter Marino 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
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
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
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
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
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications.… — Lucas Malet Copy Share Image
Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure -… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore… — John Green Copy Share Image
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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