#elle

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#colossal #earliest #enters #gates #had

A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller. ↗

— Ray Brown

#distressed #during #holidays #kick #like

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#artwork #best #big #big screen #books

Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#being #captured #closer #concept #contact

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#could #down #fists #help #her

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#broad #development #economist #intellectual #intellectual development

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#excellence #next

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#end #excellent #in the end #just #just because

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#awful #buried #children #colorado #day

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#been #compelled #curiosity #i