Aswan Dam Quotes

#1. Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Romare Bearden

#2. Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.

Giles Matthey

#3. Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

Kyle Shewfelt

#4. I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction.

Ashwin Sanghi

#5. I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

Patrick Rafter

#6. You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!

Jonathan Lynn

#7. My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

Mario Testino

#8. I wanted to redirect, reinvent the political, cultural, and artistic judgments saved for African American writers.

Toni Morrison

#9. I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts.

Deepak Chopra

#10. She shifted in her chair, eyeing her front door with trepidation as she began to wonder if something might be wrong. What if he'd been hurt somewhere - if he'd been in an automobile accident or, more bizarre but nonetheless

Barbara Delinsky

#11. The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.

Rosemary Mahoney

#12. We are not in this world to live safely. We are here to fall in love and break our hearts.

Antoinette May

#13. Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

Dawn Addams

#14. The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation.

Sean Bean

#15. In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.

Ahmed Zewail

#16. Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

Khaled Hosseini

#17. And you'd think that killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't. It just- it just makes them dead.

Joe Walker

#18. The needs of mankind are universal. Our means of meeting them create the richness and diversity of the planet. The Montessori child should come to relish the texture of that diversity.

Maria Montessori