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
The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known… — David Bainbridge Copy Share Image
Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
“Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I loved Forcalquier, with its narrow medieval streets. Its elegant 12th Century cathedral boasts a carillon that chimes every Sunday morning. I… — Carol Drinkwater 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
There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of… — Annia Ciezadlo 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
“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
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
These are barbaric people [at ISIS]. These are people that - you know, I used to study medieval times, and you know,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
The judgement makes no sense at all. It exposes the country, Turkey, to ridicule. It would have been so much better if… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“The world eclipses and it’s just her and him. No it’s just her eyes and his soul. Her eyes expose and violate… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My blood runs cold. Her savage stare and bloodied hands leave no doubts in my mind as she glares up at us… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological… — Wilhelm Dilthey 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
The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
“You are not blamed for your unwilling ignorance, but because you fail to ask about what you do not know… For no… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall… — John Ball Copy Share Image
“Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of… — Colin McEvedy Copy Share Image
The medieval ideas of the "wild wood" was like a cupboard into which they stuffed everything they were afraid of - Wodwose,… — John Matthews Copy Share Image
There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
“I never was the type of noblewoman to stay by the hearth while the men rode into battle anyway. As my father… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Court life for a queen of France at that time was, however, stultifyingly routine. Eleanor found that she was expected to be… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
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