Quotes by Pyramids When I finally got my break in TV, as a staff writer, I always wanted to be at the top of that pyramid. I always wanted to make the decisions. I always wanted to be the one that was saying, "This is what the show is, and this is what the show is not. This is where we're going. It's going to be this kind of series." It was just something I always had my eye on, when I started in the business. Ronald D. Moore eyedecisionpyramids I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be. Rose McGowan climbingpyramidsbelieve Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids? Samuel Laman Blanchard lineslibertypyramids It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid. Samuel Smiles pyramidsmenart 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. Skrillex drugpyramidsmind To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege. Stefan Molyneux imaginaryprivilegepyramids What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. Sterling Hayden pyramidslyingyears The military is a meritocracy. It's an up or out. It's shaped like a pyramid. Tanya Biank meritocracymilitarypyramids Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick. Thales shadowpyramidstwo Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. Terry Pratchett naturekeyspyramids If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the journey and try with me to scale this mountain of the dead--going up miles high on human carcasses to find still other peaks far above, mountain above mountain, white with the bones of drunkards. Thomas De Witt Talmage pyramidsjourneywhite All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed. Terry Pratchett insultingmirrorspyramids Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something. Terry Pratchett smirktrustpyramids There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails. Thomas Pynchon eyepyramidsbelieve Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. Terry Pratchett pyramidsstupidanimal It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. Terry Pratchett appreciate-lifelife-and-deathpyramids The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does. Tom Vilsack pyramidsdoegiving What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid? Tom Stoppard bluntpyramidsmind Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...? Tom Stoppard bluntpyramidsmind Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. Tracy Kidder skillspyramidsteacher«12345678910»
