And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. — Dennis Price 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
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
The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
The 'Middle Ages/Dark Ages' were of course no such thing. Achievement in the Arabian crescent was sensational then. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split… — Hans Urs von Balthasar 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
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that… — Ayn Rand 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
“The bibliographer in the digital age returns to the revelatory practice of her medieval forebears. Librarians, like those scribes of the Middle… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“As indicated by the book’s sub-title, it is now increasingly obvious that those who would seek to be conquerors of the world… — John Price Copy Share Image
“The important works of Al Ghazali were subsequently translated into hebrew, and played an important role in the jewish literature of the… — Gershon Chertoff Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one… — Daphne du Maurier 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
“must have saffron to colour the warden pies; mace; dates?— none, that’s out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
“It was now autumn, and I made up my mind to make, before winter set in, an excursion across Normandy, a country… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages, this conflict between the Platonic and Aristotelian views of the relationship between mathematics and the world began to… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them. — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by… — Anne Bradstreet 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
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
“Jews, there are bound to be misconceptions. During the Middle Ages, they were even accused of causing the bubonic plague by poisoning… — C.H. Dalton Copy Share Image
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,… — David Lodge 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
I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
“Popular opinion, journalistic cliché and misinformed historians notwithstanding, recent research has shown that the Middle Ages was a period of enormous advances… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land;… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image