Cheops Quotes & Sayings

At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate numerologists, who have claimed that connections exist between alpha, the Cheops pyramid, and Stonehenge! — Clifford A. Pickover

The walls were draped with banners covered with cabalistic signs, an abundance of owls of all kinds, scarabs and ibises, and Oriental divinities of uncertain origin. Near the rear wall was a dais, a proscenium of burning torches held up by rough logs, and in the background an altar with a triangular altarpiece and statuettes of Isis and Osiris. The room was ringed by an amphitheater of figures of Anubis, and there was a portrait of Cagliostro (it could hardly have been of anyone else, could it?), a gilded mummy in Cheops format, two five-armed candelabra, a gong suspended from two rampant snakes, on a podium a lectern covered by calico printed with hieroglyphics, and two crowns, two tripods, a little portable sarcophagus, a throne, a fake seventeenth-century fauteuil, four unmatched chairs suitable for a banquet with the sheriff of Nottingham, and candles, tapers, votive lights, all flickering very spiritually. — Umberto Eco

For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release. — Volkmar Sigusch

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me. — Charlton Heston

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner. — Neil Gaiman

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change. — Tiger Woods

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

They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field. — Gregory Maguire

Why do I get the feeling, interjected Cheops, that shit and fan are moving into conjunction, and that we might be in the way? — Neal Asher

Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano.
What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again. — David Markson

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did. — Marty Feldman

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs! — A. J. Buckley

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor. — Debi Thomas

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

We write our deepest thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You are a human being with a free will. Which puts you above the animal level. But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman - you are as an animal - "an — Truman Capote

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world. — Henry Miller