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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. -- Stephen Gardiner
There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor. -- Omar Sharif
Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods. -- Whitley Strieber
We must educate our children to become like young Egyptian people. -- Barack Obama
I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people. -- Mohammed Morsi
I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution. -- Mohammed Morsi
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists. -- Richard Engel
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. -- A. E. Waite
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. -- Anthony Sampson
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament. -- Ray Bradbury
Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. -- Neil Gaiman
The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone. -- Stephen Gardiner
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) -- Henri Rousseau
I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever. -- Mohamed Al-Fayed
One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do. -- Shimon Peres
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn't seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods. -- Johnny Carson
The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him -- Menachem Begin
I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. -- Judith Butler
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? -- Ray Bradbury
As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political purposes no matter what censorship proponents claim to the contrary. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. -- Jerry Saltz
I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely. -- Elliott Abrams
I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements. -- Hillary Clinton
I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour. -- Rick Riordan
I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I've even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I'm creepy. So creepy. -- Pete Wentz
Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side. -- Mickey Hart
Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We've got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That's not America's role totally. -- Andrew Young
The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate. -- Graydon Carter
Tie my heart in Egyptian threads. -- Jennifer Calvert
Denial is much more then an Egyptian River. -- Mark Twain
We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools. -- David Cameron
The Muslim Brotherhood can't even penetrate the Egyptian government, -- Ibrahim Ali
You're going to the cemetery with your toothbrush. How Egyptian -- Robin Williams
A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law. -- Brock Yates
Mido has just been sent off and I can confirm he walks like an Egyptian -- Jeff Stelling
What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything. -- Allen Tate
The Egyptian society needs to include its women if it wants to have economic prosperity. -- Christine Lagarde
The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE -- Tom Standage
There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people. -- Mohammed Morsi
She must have Egyptian blood. Every time I try to kiss her she says, "Tut, Tut!" -- Henny Youngman
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. -- Evgeny Morozov
I slather Egyptian Magic cream all over my face on overnight flights to keep my skin hydrated. -- Kate Hudson
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. -- Seneca the Younger
Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know. -- Rita Ora
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud. -- Robert Blair
'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. -- Neil Gaiman
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it. -- Zahi Hawass
The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it. -- Walid Jumblatt
The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai. -- Elliott Abrams
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. -- Ambrose Bierce
The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version of Satan. -- David Icke
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation. -- Edward Tufte
Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. -- Bassem Youssef
When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment. -- Nabil Elaraby
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What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I remember when the Egyptian ambassador to the United States stood in the Rose Garden and pledged Arab commitment to removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. -- John Kasich
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian. -- Heinz Fischer
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones -- Carleton S. Coon
By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques. -- Frederick Lenz
By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques. -- Frederick Lenz
The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in the future of global politics. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid. -- John Taylor Gatto
If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids. -- Lindsey Graham
If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment. -- Mohammed Morsi
I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country. -- Hosni Mubarak
I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages. -- Ahmed Zewail
These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen phases are ruled by Isis. -- Rudolf Steiner
Washington was taken by surprise by the Egyptian revolution because policy experts focused too much on Mubarak and his government, and too little on the 'voice of the people.' -- Cynthia P. Schneider
Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate -- Vladimir Putin
In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden. -- Richard Engel
The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene. -- Elliott Abrams
The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn't just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations. -- Shereen El Feki
Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse, My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse. I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk, Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk. -- Ghostface Killah
Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn't a compliment. "I will rend your limbs from their sockets!" he shouted. "I will"?" "Die?" Carter suggested. -- Rick Riordan
I wouldnt mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visit natural and historical landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Mount Kilimanjaro or the Taj Mahal. -- Megalyn Echikunwoke
Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation. -- Frederick Lenz
With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. -- George Eliot
Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and Shiva the transformer or destroyer - the Cycle of creation. -- Frederick Lenz
The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished -- Frederick Lenz
The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished -- Frederick Lenz
It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction. -- Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies~? -- Ray Bradbury
Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. -- Tom Segev
Egypt is practicing its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind of international or regional concerns at all from the presence of Egyptian security forces. -- Mohammed Morsi
Poseidon's trident was also all over the place, since Peter the Great wanted to stress Russia's sea power. I especially like the trident on top of an obelisk -- what a great Egyptian/Greek mix up! -- Rick Riordan
I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears. -- Shahin Najafi
On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime's largest torture facilities. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
We did not think that [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it. -- Yitzhak Rabin
As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward dominant values and noncompliance with the status quo creates alternative, counterhegemonic spaces. -- H. Samy Alim
I'm half Egyptian, and I'm Muslim. But I grew up in Canada, far from my Arab roots. Like so many who straddle East and West, I've been drawn, over the years, to try to better understand my origins. -- Shereen El Feki
[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy. -- Cleopatra
Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape. -- Dave Barry
There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout. -- Richard Engel
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society. No civil, liberal government can succeed, even after new elections, if the Islamists are forced to work underground as a foe and the country remains divided. -- Ahmed Zewail
The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I'm Egyptian and Muslim, but I grew up in the West, far from my Arab roots. I began 'Sex and the Citadel' to help outsiders - like myself - to better comprehend this pivotal part of the world, up-close and personal. -- Shereen El Feki
After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been. -- Rick Riordan
Neighbors would pass, and when they honked I'd remember that I was in my Speedo. Then I'd wrap my towel like a skirt around my waist and remind my sisters that this was not girlish but Egyptian, thank you very much. -- David Sedaris
Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'. -- Rick Riordan
We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose. -- Ray Bradbury
For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy. The Yangtze is as quintessentially Chinese as the Nile is Egyptian or the Rhine is German. Many businesses use its name. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience. -- Maajid Nawaz
The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries , on the one side, and against Judaism , on the other. -- George Sarton
Gamal Abdal Nasser, the nationalist leader of Egypt, was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as an Egyptian Hitler. Then it carried on like that. Saddam Hussein became Hitler when he was no longer a friend of the West. Then Milosevic became Hitler. -- Tariq Ali
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit. -- Pope Theodoros II
We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit. -- Pope Theodoros II
We feel closer to the drawings on the walls of Chauvet than the painting of, say, an Egyptian mural. These artists are not remote ancestors; they are brothers. They saw like us; they drew like us. We wear essentially the same clothes against the cold. -- Simon McBurney
But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. -- Henry Ward Beecher
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A. -- Richard Engel
Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." "Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike." The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth. -- Gordon Korman

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