Best Mayan Quotes

#1. French was assigned to sculpt allegorical figures of the continents. His America, from 1907, is one of the most concise depictions of our history I've ever seen: a European stepping on a Mayan head.

Sarah Vowell

#2. I'm really into sci-fi. I always have been. In addition to that, I've always had a tremendous fascination with the lure of the Apocalypse or Judgment Day or the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#3. Sometimes even now I think I see him in the street or standing in a window or bent over a book in a coffee shop. And in that instant, before I understand that it's someone else, my lungs tighten and I lose my breath.

Siri Hustvedt

#4. You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

Oprah Winfrey

#5. The bounds of our past hold no restrictions on our minds, other than those imposed by our minds" ~ Alex Just

Alex Just

#6. Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in South America did the same, and I expect our own civilization will do likewise.

Daniel Suarez

#7. I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#8. The common liberal orthodoxy that living close to the land leads to eco-awareness is historically naive, considering that Mesopotamia, northern Africa, and the Mayan civilization were ruined by people who had lived there quite a long while.

Gregory Benford

#9. The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted.

John Gurdon

#10. I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.

Mark Ruffalo

#11. As for all your latest Mayan discoveries and poems, I want to hear every word of it if you want to transmit it, or tell it when we meet, but don't expect me to get excited by anything anymore.

Jack Kerouac

#12. I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.

Sarah Shahi

#13. Os-car." He tsked in mock disappointment. "This little girl kicked your ass?" ~ Kris

Sahara Roberts

#14. When the Mayan Calendar runs out there will be another day. Just like there was with Y2K.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#15. If 2012 is the end of the world can I have a table for two at Ground Zero?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#16. A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.

Peter J. Wetzelaer

#17. I am not very moved by historical apologies.

Tom Paulin

#18. According to the Mayans, the world is supposed to end in the year 2012. Are you buying that? When's the last time you even ran into a Mayan?

Jay Leno

#19. I have researched aboriginal culture, Mayan hieroglyphics and the corporate culture of a Japanese car manufacturer, and I have written essays on the internal logic of various other societies, but I haven't a clue about my own logic.

Deborah Levy

#20. I'd always loved movies. I watch them all the time; my dad is a huge movie buff.

Austin Butler

#21. Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.

Tom Brokaw

#22. If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

Eric Alterman

#23. We typically don't choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.

Shannon Miller

#24. These months drive us to listen within.

Charol Messenger

#25. This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.

Julian Jaynes

#26. Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams

Gary Blair

#27. Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012.

Seth Shostak