Hieroglyphic Quotes

#1. It is hieroglyphic that will last, not stone heads. The future belongs to the word, not the image.

(The mason Mutsose, in Achet-Aten).

Steven William Lawrie

#2. Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

Kenneth Clark

#3. In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Edith Wharton

#4. Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Thomas Pynchon

#5. Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#6. Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

Thomas Starr King

#7. Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the Moon , and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity , and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre.

John Dee

#8. As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

John Donne

#9. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate.

Thomas Pynchon

#10. We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?

Rick Riordan

#11. In seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul.

Sara Gruen

#12. Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

Patience Strong

#13. New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time.

Bill Dedman

#14. A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week, without knowing the gospel.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a

Mark Twain

#16. I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

Patton Oswalt

#17. The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the side of the body nervously affected, is in itself evidence that in this case the ancient surgeon was already beginning observations on the localization of functions in the brain.

James Henry Breasted

#18. Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [ ... ] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed.

James Henry Breasted

#19. On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

Bruce Springsteen

#20. Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Light of life.
The power of life
God is life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Syn took a deep breath. He was getting ready to step into Furi's sexual stronghold, and he was helpless to resist it. He didn't want to fight it. After the kind of afternoon he'd had hunting Furi down, the man owed him some stress relief. Syn

A.E. Via

#23. Then the oil from the coach-lamps ignites and there is a second explosion, out of which rolls - because there are certain conventions, even in tragedy - a burning wheel.

Terry Pratchett

#24. Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone.

Wayne Jacobsen

#25. 25At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. 26Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way!

Anonymous

#26. If you're not doing needles and you're not gay, you won't get AIDS, probably.

Rob Ford