Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not… — Elizabeth Perkins Copy Share Image
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib.… — Orson Welles 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
It seems to me that since the Middle Ages (it's not a Reformation thing), all that stuff about Jews and Gentiles coming… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency.… — Richard P. Feynman 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
“Sometime during my study of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, I uncovered an odd paradox that exists in our minds about… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade.… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book… — Joshua Foer 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 know the present only through the television screen, whereas I have direct knowledge of the Middle Ages.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“She pinched her nose against the stench as I squirted oil of vitriol around the door. Vaporous tendrils curled from the seams.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time… — Seth Shostak 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
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
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
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle… — Matthew Arnold 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
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
“Margaret looked up at him from where she sat by the window. "Oh, Brother Gregory, what's wrong with your hand" "I'm just… — Judith Merkle Riley 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
My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
