Apparel Garment Quotes & Sayings

The years between Roger Bacon's birth, in 1220, and Uthred's death, in 1370, are considered the final flowering of the Middle Ages. They were followed by a longer, grimmer period in Europe, during which the machinery for rooting out heresy defeated enlightened discourse almost completely. The early condemnation of works by William Ockham, Johannes Eckehart, the spiritual Franciscans, and Dante signaled the start of a breakdown in the integrity of Western thought. During this Great Interruption, xenophobia replaced curiosity, interest in Islam and the classics withered, and Muslim thought was anathematized or ignored. Fifty years later, it was no longer wise to learn Arabic, Hebrew, or even Greek. — Michael Wolfe

But our intuitive conception of time differs from the ceaseless cosmic stream envisioned by Newton and Kant. To begin with, our experience of the present is not an infinitesimal instant. Instead it embraces some minimum duration, a moving window on life in which we apprehend not just the instantaneous "now" but a bit of the recent past and a bit of the impending future. — Steven Pinker

The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the mechanism of transparency. — Julian Assange

Networking is not about just connecting people. It's about connecting people with people, people with ideas, and people with opportunities. — Michele Jennae

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning. — P.G. Wodehouse

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection ... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close. — Kobe Bryant

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic. — Gore Vidal

Blame was a luxury they could no longer afford. — Lisi Harrison

Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No. — Martha Beck

I have never met a writer who didn't need an editor, and an editor without a writer is a person without a job. It is a fraught and often-imperfect relationship, of course, dating back to the beginning of time. You remember; after God moved upon the darkness, he proclaimed, "I've put in place some very wondrous illumination here!" And Mrs. God gently suggested the more pithy: 'Let there be light. — Alex Beam