“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
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
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
“I love you enough to keep you from dying with me... ~ Dane de Falaise” — Gayle Mullen Pace 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
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
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
We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants will say: 'You won't believe this,… — Norman Foster 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
The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very… — Khaled Hosseini 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
The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
When we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads, where you have - and, frankly, drowning people in steel… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“What kind of person do you wish to be? A part of those who take action, who try the hardest, or of… — S.N. Lemoing Copy Share Image
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.” — Roberta Pearce 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
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now” — Colin McEvedy Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure. — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
