The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an… — Grimes Copy Share Image
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices… — Conrad Black 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
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
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
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
“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 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
“How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to… — Christine de Pizan 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
I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France… — Feist Copy Share Image
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie 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
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
“No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child… I was even inclined to dig into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a… — Thomas Huxley 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
Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry… — Ray William Johnson Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract'… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Free market ideology - does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous,… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 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
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
