This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages. — Bill Gates 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
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 got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was… — Rob Cantrell Copy Share Image
It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You will all know that in the Middle Ages there were supposed to be various classes of angels. these hierarchized celsitudes are… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported… — Mark Kurlansky 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
Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny… — Jose Saragamo Copy Share Image
“...when today as believers in our age we hear it said, a little enviously perhaps, that in the Middle Ages everyone without… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at… — Claudia Hammond Copy Share Image
“Zeitgeist is a German word that means “spirit of the age.” The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the… — Louis A. Markos Copy Share Image
“The times do not call for grassroots political activism, as if the next election might be enough to reverse a massive cultural… — Paul D. Miller Copy Share Image
“A few hours later, Françoise was able for the last time, and without causing pain, to comb that beautiful hair, which was… — PROUST MARCEL Copy Share Image
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who… — Scott Sauls 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
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle 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
At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath 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
I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young; I liked them when I was middle-age; I… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
“The fall of Rome in 476 A.D. marks the time when the literate barbarians of Rome were replaced by the illiterate barnarians… — Daniel Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on… — Tess Gerritsen 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 definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
“What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back… — Victor Gischler Copy Share Image
![“I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.” quote by Rob Cantrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/847/rob-cantrell-73959_beats_i-got-booted-out-third-but-to-me-last-co_2955172.jpg)
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