Egyptologist Quotes & Sayings

Whether you're conducting phone interviews or simply need to hear yourself think, privacy is an extremely important variable in the writing life. — Sage Cohen

Choosing an unconventional career path - I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it. — Sarah Parcak

Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is almonds, meadow grass. Because if I smile at her ambition to be an Egyptologist, she kicks my shin under the table. Because she makes me think about something other than myself. Because even when serious she shines. Because she prefers travelogues to Sir Walter Scott, prefers Billy Mayerl to Mozart, and couldn't tell a C major from a sergeant major. Because I, only I, see her smile a fraction before it reaches her face. Because Emperor Robert is not a good man - his best part is commandeered by his unperformed music - but she gives me that rarest smile, anyway. Because we listened to nightjars. Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning. Because a man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproof chambers of my heart. — David Mitchell

The Egyptologist Dr. Eva Eggebrecht writes in this respect: "The contemporary silence about the construction of the pyramids becomes incomprehensible if we recall that the necropolises were not deathly silent cities of secrecy.... Sacrifices were made, priests came and went.... None of them left as much as a note which would answer even a single question about the construction of the pyramids."11 — New Page Books

I, too, am among those unable to step outside the realm of worldly distinctions. I hide my excesses of joy and sorrow beneath a robe of false contentment and drown in a pool of tears unseen by others. How I envy those naive enough to covet the glory of others. Do they not realize that tears fall not only on the sleeves of worn and tattered kimonos? The jewels that spill, glittering, onto my brocade are the very water of life, but they are mistaken for mere ornament. Although no one notices, my heart is shattered into a thousand pieces. — Shikin Shimizu

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist. — Sarah Parcak

no matter how little it might seem, if you are doing it for the Lord and you are doing it with a pure heart, it is not a waste of time — Sunday Adelaja

The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task. — Sri Chinmoy

One of the most important finds within the land of Egypt occurred when the Egyptologist and archaeologist Professor Walter B. Emery (1903-1971) was excavating tombs at the necropolis of Saqqara, one of the oldest cities in the land. There Professor Emery discovered men with blond hair and fair complexions. These individuals were revered and honored by the Egyptians as specially endowed elite. — Michael Tsarion

I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling. — Rick Springfield

The people that were socially awkward from my generation, they all had paper routes and that taught them the discipline of work. — Temple Grandin

A narcissist never has your back. — Zari L. Ballard

Night falls, he thought, and now my war begins. — George R R Martin

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that. — Alan Shearer

My beautiful intellectual. My mad Egyptologist. — Jae T. Jaggart

What I write [ ... ] doesn't seem to be ... true. I mean I can model so little of what it's about. Life is a very terrible thing, mostly, with points of wonder and beauty. Most of what makes it terrible, though, is simply that there's so much of it, blaring in through the five senses. In my loft, alone, in the middle of the night, it comes blaring in. So I work at culling enough from it to construct moments of order. — Samuel R. Delany

I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon. — Rebecca Sugar

I'm an Egyptologist. I'm a remote sensing specialist, and I'm a space archaeologist. — Sarah Parcak