Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Foucault

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Eddie Izzard

We have archeology on television, and I quite like it; its a sort of detective thing, but its really true, you know its there But its kind of slow on telly, it has this problem of, Weve been here three weeks on live television, and weve taken off about a millimeter of top soil so far Theres men with brushes and beards maybe theyve just got beards, Im not sure We found this and carbon-dated it to last Tuesday, so were very excited

Gail Carriger

Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.

Kerry Greenwood

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

Eddie Izzard

And they always find in archeology a series of small walls. Every time, a series of small walls. Everywhere you go. Weve found a series of small walls, were very excited I think this proves they had walls in olden days. They were very small, and a series of small wall people. And then someone comes along, very learned, with glasses, Of course, the king and queen entertained here 1,500 courtiers, and there were soldiers, 20,000 soldiers in this room, and elephants dancing hopscotch over there A mad fiddler in this room, playing the banjo, buttocks and aqueducts into a heater And youre just watching, and going, Youre making this up, mate! Youre just pointing at a series of small walls, going, there, there Tutankhamen playing banjo in there Dont know if its true.

Brendan Foley

The thing that makes this archeology and not treasure-hunting or salvage is the scientific approach, which includes precision navigation and mapping.

Kathy Whitworth

Passing and serving needs to improve, it just needs to become a little more consistent. But we don't really worry about it too much, it can be easily fixed.

P. Herbert

Some of us are like wheelbarrows - only useful when pushed, and very easily upset

P. Herbert

Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.

Kyle Cooper

Pipeline pressure swings and other timing issues can easily result in deviations from what is expected.

Christopher Molineux

Malice can be spotted more easily in eyebrows than in opinions

Jan Wald

I think they easily could go up to $76 without a lot of damage.

Charles Anson

I think there's a feeling that there but for the grace of God, these sort of problems could easily happen to your own children.

Jim Tressel

That was an emotional turnaround. It very easily could have been a 20-7 game, which is not an out of reach game. But it's a lot different than being down 17-14.

Jeremiah Gertler

That's the kind of question that can wind up very easily in the Supreme Court.

John Keegan

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

Edward Gibbon

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Anita Brookner

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Anita Brookner

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

Martin H. Fischer

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

Philip Guedalla

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Henry Home

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Henry Home

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

John Acton

The greatest men, you can quote for everything.

Sathya Baba

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Franz Humer

Patents will not stand in the way of producing the drug for mankind.

H. Hunt

Our management team and operational infrastructure have been strengthened during 2005 and we now have the structure in place to move towards profitability.

Tara Fisher

People need to know that predators aren't a man in the bushes. Eighty-five percent of the time you know your attacker.

Buzz Hargrove

Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.

Jeff Siegel

Our traffic management is substantial and works quite well.

Irish Proverbs

Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel on him.

E.R. Rock

Pity the man that all women wish to be friends with because none of them will want to be anything more.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.