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
“When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you… — James Frain Copy Share Image
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague. — Hendrik Poinar 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
According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“Do I perceive a softening in your heart for me, damoiselle?" He laughed at her scowl. "Beware maid. I will tell you… — Kathleen E. Woodiwiss Copy Share Image
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
“I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval,… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
“Waiting for one’s execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did.… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“En la forest de Longue Attente chevauchant par divers sentiers m'en voys, ceste année présente où voyage de Desiriers. Devant sont aller… — Hella S. Haasse Copy Share Image
I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
