Pyramids Quotes - Page 2

• Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Animal, Needs

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7)”, p.165, Random House

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• 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

  People, Waiting, Important

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• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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• When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.

  John Adams

  Believe, Mean, Egypt

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.388

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.

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

  Ben Stein

  Goal, Steps, Leap

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.97, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nature, Keys, Vacuums

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• What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Men, Age, Might

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843".

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• The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

  Karl Pilkington

  Design, Tiny, Bedroom

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• Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

  John Taylor Gatto

  School, Egyptian, Teach

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.27, New Society Publishers

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• In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Simple, World

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan

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• You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Forever, Looks

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 18, 2016

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• 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

  Hype, Way, Elementals

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure provides opportunity for renewal of spirit, mind, and body. It is a time for worship, for family, for service, for study, for wholesome recreation. It brings harmony into our life.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Opportunity, Joy, Mind

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• I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Back Alleys, Egypt, Tv Shows

  "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• ...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.

  Nick Hornby

  Long, People, Going Away

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.226, Penguin

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• We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Sibling, Mean

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• As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Winter, Olympus, Levels

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• A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Integrity, Honor

  "Memoirs" by Pierre Trudeau, (Part 5, Life After Politics, p. 366), 1993.

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• Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. Now, all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaoh's graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big, when you stop and think about it - and I don't think it would just disappear over the course of time - to store that much grain.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Order, Pharaohs

  "Ben Carson, Joseph in Egypt, and the Attack on Rational Thought" by Gary Leupp, www.counterpunch.org. November 27, 2015.

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• If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.

  Lindsey Graham

  Heart, Civilization, People

  "State of the Union" With Candy Crowley, transcripts.cnn.com. February 13, 2011.

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• It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivation, Vacation, Years

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• When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Military, Real, Home

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• Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.

  J. G. Ballard

  Religious, Cities, Shopping

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