I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Modern writers usually don't know what it was like to live in the past, but Rushworth-Brown has done this with great skill… — Paul Rushworth-Brown Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the… — Raphael Patai Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Chance! A word void of all meaning to people of the middle age! Everything is a manifestation of the divine will: this… — Achille Luchaire Copy Share Image
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
“The whole appeal of medieval studies - the language, the literature, the history, the art and architecture - to immerse oneself in… — David Szalay Copy Share Image
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, we have people chopping the heads off Christians, we have people chopping the heads off many other people.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I find the niqab symbol profoundly offensive. I believe it reflects a misogynistic culture that - a treatment of women as property… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and… — Sasha Pieterse Copy Share Image
I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit… — Piers Corbyn Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The construction of 'Sekiro''s world is based on that of traditional Sengoku, or medieval Japan. To that end, we made sure to… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have… — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws… — Sushmita Banerjee Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to… — Tate Donovan Copy Share Image
We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Can I get a fork?; There were no utensils in medieval times, hence there ARE no utensils AT Medieval Times- would you… — Matthew Broderick Copy Share Image
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I read a lot of poetry. All types of poetry, but mostly Catalan poetry, because I believe poetry is the essence of… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
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