Quotes by Pyramids But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk him up. The pyramids were designed and constructed without a whiff of a sniff of caffeine. Coffee was introduced to Europe only in 1615. The achievements of antiquity are quite enough to cow the modern human, but when you realize that they did it all without caffeine it becomes almost unbearable. Mark Forsyth coffeepyramidseurope The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid. Martin Buber pyramidsfirefaces [I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn't belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was. Mary Antin patrioticpyramidshonor Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual. Mahatma Gandhi anarchycirclespyramids I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now. Michael Dumontier essentialspyramidstrying On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top of the pyramid. Michael Hudson flat-taxincomepyramids It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of. Michael Tsarion khufupyramidsyears ...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza. Michael Tsarion khufupharaohspyramids The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own. Michel de Montaigne egyptrockspyramids 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. Mohamed Al-Fayed glassespyramidsforever I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist. Mitch Hedberg humorpyramidsfunny the pyramids were built for pharaohs on the happy theory that they could take their stuff with them. Versailles was built for kings on the theory that they should live surrounded by the finest stuff. The Mall of America is built on the premise that we should all be able to afford this stuff. It may be a shallow culture, but it's by-God democratic. Sneer if you dare; this is something new in world history. Molly Ivins shoppingpyramidskings To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities. Nathan Eldon Tanner healthypersonspyramids From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. Napoleon Bonaparte armypyramidslooks Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid. Nick Cave pyramidspeoplethinking ...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 pyramidslongpeople There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached. Ninon de L'Enclos crisismomentspyramids Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13 has been so important in the history of the United States and in the symbols of the seal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the thirteen courses of the pyramid may represent thirteen time-periods of thirteen years each. Paul Foster Case pyramidsnumbersyears New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters. Paul Reiser pyramid-schemespyramidskids If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be far higher than the Eiffel Tower, but almost all of us would be within a yard of the ground. Paul Samuelson blockpyramidschildren«12345678910»
