Century Quote by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Download Open image “Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.” — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Common Folks Lasts Names
Why would you want to just make up a middle name when the name should be coming from family and previous generations? I think… — Artem Chigvintsev Copy Share Image
Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I… — FM-2030 Copy Share Image
A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Studies of the people named and described in earliest Christian texts show that, right from the earliest years, they included craftsmen, merchants, and owners… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
And the Earth had no name. The gods know themselves and have no need of names. It is man who names all things, even… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“How beautiful a thing is youth Which flees us in every way. Whoever desires to be merry, let him; For tomorrow is never certain.… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
“To Trazada's surprise the Generalissimo laughed, a great subterranean rumbling that shook his gigantic frame like an earthquake. 'Remedios, mia pobre Remedios, they are… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
“When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
![“[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fe/pico-iyer-1252_benefits_the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i_678.jpg)
