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Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one. — Werner Herzog

Trust in good verse then:
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire. — Arthur Quiller-Couch

offered an overland excursion to view pyramids and sphinx, — Jonquil Graham

The Pyramids of Tsort by moonlight!' breathed Ysabell, 'How romantic!'
MORTARED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF SLAVES — Terry Pratchett

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege. — Stefan Molyneux

What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. The food pyramid is based on a totally irrelevant nutrient. — Ron Rosedale

Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids. — Sherwood Anderson

The military is a meritocracy. It's an up or out. It's shaped like a pyramid. — Tanya Biank

The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud. — Robert Blair

Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want. — Shahla Khan

The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations. — Robert Kennedy

No," he heard a voice on the wind say. "If I had told you, you wouldn't have seen the Pyramids. They're beautiful, aren't they? — Paulo Coelho

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

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. — R. Buckminster Fuller

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

I have to admit, though, that Cynthia was a great organizer, but then, so were the men with whips who got the pyramids built. — Alan Bradley

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid. — Alice Dunbar Nelson

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

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand

Magnus believed that many old things were creations of enduring beauty. The pyramids. Michelangelo's David. Versailles. Magnus himself. — Cassandra Clare

When the ancient Egyptians finished building the pyramids, they had built the pyramids. — Anne Lamott

I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason. — Franz Kafka

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

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2) — Aleister Crowley

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. — Napoleon Bonaparte

People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. — Marion D. Hanks

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes. — Caldwell Esselstyn

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

To be healthy and happy, a person must live a life that includes a good variety of activities. — Nathan Eldon Tanner

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza. — Michael Tsarion

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more. — Terry Pratchett

I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes. — Rachel

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest. — Justin Zackham

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

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

Hey guys! Wish you were here, except not really. We're having fun. Check it out-the pyramids! -Alec and Magnus — Cassandra Clare

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids. — Kanye West

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

even the Pyramids and other "great works" were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton. — Dan Simmons

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids. — Frank Chodorov

Families must spend more time together in work and recreation. — Ezra Taft Benson

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man. — Rick Riordan

I already find pyramids from space. Is there anything cooler than that? — Sarah Parcak

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

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance. — Arthur C. Clarke

Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation. — Brigham Young

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

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. — Gene Roddenberry

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. — James Turrell

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

There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached. — Ninon De L'Enclos

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid. — Martin Buber

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

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs. — Kendrick Lamar

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

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky. — Henry Ward Beecher

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs — Kendrick Lamar

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. — D.H. Lawrence

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. — James Hunter

Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry. — Kyle Abraham

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