“In the Middle Ages it was a lot more fun to blame things like crop failure or redheads on witches, then set… — Andrew Heaton Copy Share Image
“Book Bans Are Dumb (Sonnet 1587) Book bans are dumb, It makes the mind numb. If banning books were justice, Middle ages… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows. Look: wrinkles spread like mildew… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In a sense the rise of Anabaptism was no surprise. Most revolutionary movements produce a wing of radicals who feel called of… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism =… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
“It is foolish, generally speaking, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfield Market because they do not agree… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“Not only scientific theory was condemned as the work of the devil. The devil also seems to have known a lot more… — Petr Beckman Copy Share Image
Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
“The unity of style not only of the Christian Middle Ages but of the Renaissance expresses in each case the different structure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Terms such as "man bun," "man purse," "guyliner," "meggings," and the new "romp-him" (romper) have entered the American lexicon. These terms refer… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin), your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. Is it possible that you do… — Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Copy Share Image
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ, Easton! Are we fucking back in the middle ages?" "If we were, I assure you I wouldn't have left him… — Andrea Smith Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present century shows us what experimentation without thinking leads to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour. — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
In Iran, the women are like Italian women, they rule the house inside. But it's full of life. The history is very… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
“I guess they didn’t have those in the Middle Ages, did they? (Taryn) Middle Ages? Lady, you use very strange words. (Sparhawk)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
“Particularly telling are civilisation-style strategy games, such as Minecraft, The Settlers of Catan or Sid Meier’s Civilization. The game may be set… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Saint Anthony's medallions are very powerful objects. Witches and warlocks used them in the Middle Ages, usually if they were traveling. You… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will… — Alfred M. Rehwinkel Copy Share Image