We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
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GARY F EVANS... We of the twentieth century should not allow ourselves to think vaguely of the Middle Ages as a beni...
ROBERT HUNTINGTON FLETCHER I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.
TAMORA PIERCE In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
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JOAN DIDION Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawariz...
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THOMAS CAHILL The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.
JUNE WHITFIELD Above him, the stars were brutal and clear.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling i...
JOSEPH CONRAD She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the o...
JOHN FRANCESCHI When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself...
SHAKIRA The newspapers were brutal. They were really criticizing us.
JOE ZANGHI The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and...
GEORGE SANTAYANA We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among...
BEN HECHT I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.
JOEL MADDEN We form a team. Karen completes me.
RON REITZEL There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that...
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SIGMUND FREUD Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich peo...
ALAIN BOTTON We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich peo...
ALAIN DE BOTTON How can the fact-finders be objective when there is a long-standing relationship between the fact fi...
TARA KELLY This could call into question every study ever done with sturgeon ages. I may be able to go back and...
RON BRUCH At one point there were five generations of women in our family. They make the women learn how to co...
CONNIE VALDO Those last three minutes were brutal and broke my heart.
GEORGE STEINER Western music in the Middle Ages was performed in these stone-walled gothic cathedrals, and in archi...
DAVID BYRNE The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the...
STEPHEN GARDINER I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
UMBERTO ECO How 'bout we make it three shillings and we forget the name.
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JOAN FRANCES CASEY We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent t...
HENRY KNOX Before that, plastic was a synonym of bad products. From the Middle Ages on, dolls were given infant...
CRISTIANE VON I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing...
JEROME K. JEROME There's nothing special about this place, he thinks. We all forget. Then we forget what we forgot. A...
ADAM STERNBERGH We just weren't hitting very good shots and those guys were hitting it right down the middle of the ...
ZACH JOHNSON We were together. I forget the rest.
WALT WHITMAN Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I r...
LORD BYRON I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry know...
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the M...
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BENJAMIN SPOCK Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Karen-she was all over you, your JLo's JMo
WILL & GRACE I know I can't go on forever - how can I forget it when my so-called team-mates keep asking me which...
LES FERDINAND That was brutal. It was torture, only because we really wanted to see where we were going to go.
BECKIE FRANCIS We can't forget how desperately they need our help and how important they are.
WENDIE MALICK JLo-so karen hows married life?Karen-well it only lasted 20 minutesJLo-Oh is that short?
WILL & GRACE The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. MENCKEN The opera…is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H.L. MENCKEN The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century ...
ANZIA YEZIERSKA It's been a circus, (but) we got so much stuff going on in the spring, I can understand it. Karen (H...
DANNY MITCHELL But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.
CRESSIDA COWELL The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
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ESTHER B. FEIN I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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JOHN GRIERSON Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?
EURIPIDES We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how
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KAREN BLACK If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c...
KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
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