Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Parsons

The Sicilian Defence was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered. The album was rejected by Arista, not surprisingly, and we then renegotiated our deal for the future and the next album, The Turn of a Friendly Card. The Sicilian Defence album was never released and never will be, if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

Caleb Cushing

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

Bill Viola

Human beings have always been creative. The guys who were making the pyramids.. and archaeological research has showed us this.. had little figurines made by the workers, to express their devotion to their god.

Brigham Young

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Brigham Young

The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

Daniel Handler

There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

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...

Barbara Kingsolver

They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

Elena Satine

Im fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?

D. H. Lawrence

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

Dan Brown

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

Dan Brown

Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.

Donald Trump

I am often asked if Network Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme. My reply is that corporations really are pyramid schemes. A corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below.

Donald Trump

When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top.

Karl Pilkington

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.

Frank Chodorov

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Eddie Griffin

You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Eduard Shevardnadze

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

Ezra Taft Benson

Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.

George Bernard Shaw

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

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."

Ice Cube

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

Martin Buber

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

Karl Pilkington

The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top.

John Lothrop Motley

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

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.

J. K. Rowling

We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us.

Skrillex

I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.