“The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God is far too lovely to… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
“I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.” — Laurel A. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.” — Lotoya Peterson Copy Share Image
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
“I am a knight riding from tower to tower seeking a princess to rescue but all the dragons are slain, the towers… — Pieter Niemand Copy Share Image
My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with… — Tina St. John Copy Share Image
“There were hundreds of them, all dressed like silver dragons, all with long, streaming capes that looked like great wings, flapping and… — Tony Del Degan Copy Share Image
There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“I never was the type of noblewoman to stay by the hearth while the men rode into battle anyway. As my father… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“At his most characteristic, medieval man was not a dreamer nor a wanderer. He was an organiser, a codifier, a builder of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You have people chopping off heads of Christians and others. Not since medieval times has anyone seen anything like this. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.' Then look your fill, and leap… — Charles Reade Copy Share Image
Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“I loved it, couldn't stop reading, I learnt many more things of medieval time.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
