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
As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved… — Isaac Asimov 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
Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
“And you dare to wear the golden spurs of a knight? You dare to call yourself a Marshal of France and carry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“April comes to us, with her showers sweet. I wake to the cries of little birds before the light comes across the… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times. — Lance Armstrong 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
The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony… — Tony Rothman Copy Share Image
Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“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
“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea -… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey. He sat upon his noble throne shining like the dawn.… — Laurel A. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows… — Ricky Gervais 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
“In the Medieval poem, we are surrounded by Winter, but I always imagined the Green Chapel and the castle of Lord and… — Virginia Chandler Copy Share Image
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
