I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin. — Dakin Matthews Copy Share Image
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre. — William Kircher Copy Share Image
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both… — John Fowles 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated,… — Hank Nuwer Copy Share Image
“Rooks have clustered on either side of the long road. It is as if they line a grand parade route for our… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be… — J. William Fulbright 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
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When they're shooting, when they're chopping off the heads of our people and other people, when they are chopping off the heads… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty… — David Liss Copy Share Image
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. — Irving Babbitt 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
Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it's true I can be stubborn.' 'Sometimes?' she added derisively. 'Quite often,' he tempered.” — S.N. Lemoing Copy Share Image
I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. — Wojciech Jaruzelski 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
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
What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through… — Oliver DeMille 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
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
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
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
“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
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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