Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.

Zahi Hawass

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

Zahi Hawass

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.

Murray Rothbard

At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power to print legal tender money. But the Fed tries its best not to print cash but rather to "print" or create demand deposits, checking deposits, out of thin air, since its demand deposits constitute the reserves on top of which the commercial banks can pyramid a multiple creation of bank deposits, or "checkbook money."

Nick Hornby

...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.

Ben Stein

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals...

Martin Buber

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

Bible Bible

He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

Mohamed ElBaradei

I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law.

Russell Crowe

What is Egyptian cotton, and why would I travel with my own sheets?

William Winwood Reade

It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

William Winwood Reade

The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.

Roald Dahl

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Zahi Hawass

Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.

Voltaire

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

William Hague

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

Richard Paul Evans

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Richelle Mead

The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.

Richelle Mead

What's going on?" I sat down on the bed and finished the last of the scone. "Bad things," she said mischievously. "You'll approve.

Rube Goldberg

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Rex Stout

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.

William Safire

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.

William Wordsworth

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

William J. Clinton

You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.