Champollion Quotes & Sayings

They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again. — Yasunari Kawabata

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage. — Rabindranath Tagore

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests. — Andy Stern

I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening. — Henri

By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves ... We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. - CHARLES V. WILLIE — James W. Loewen

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution. — Ernest Gellner

He was a figurehead - an aging CEO of his own family who only showed up for the board meetings and wondered how so much got done without him. — Tad Williams

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body. — Robert Henri

On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!' — Jake LaMotta

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable. — Herman Melville

With none of Vader's backstory available at the time, and having just invented the Noghri species for this story, I came up with the idea that Vader might have designed his mask to look like a stylized version of a Noghri face, the better to facilitate his command of the death commando squads. — Timothy Zahn

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem. — Jerry Falwell