Alphabet Quote by Thomas Starr King

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

— Thomas Pynchon

Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the…

— John Dee

“In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all…

— Herman Melville

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but…

— Edith Wharton

Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encourages conceit.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of…

— Thomas Pynchon

“The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of…

— James Henry Breasted

“We could argue that the ancient Egyptians were positively constrained by their hieroglyphic system of writing to express abstract qualities in a crudely physical…

— Jeremy Naydler

“Can't have a care when you unzip & bare the rare hieroglyphs from the archeological digs unearthed from those undiscovered inner layers.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image. (The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).”

— Steven William Lawrie

“Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the…

— James Henry Breasted

“Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just…

— James Henry Breasted