If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
No man may make another free.
