Eruditos Medievales Quotes & Sayings

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China. — James Fallows

Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.
That would do it every time. — Terry Pratchett

The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.
— Michael Kruger

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. — Diana Ross

Nina Simone had such an androgynous voice; the first time I listened to her I thought it was a man, and I'm sure a lot of people listening to me think I'm a woman. Her voice is kinda like the poster child for me. — Shamir

want to know if he was with his wife all evening, or if he brought her home and then came back to poor old Dr. Bill?" Monica — Lucinda D. Davis

Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions. — Rachel Kushner

The photographic image ... is a message without a code. — Roland Barthes

One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly. — David Mitchell

Part of me regrets ever meeting him. Because this hurts too much. — Kristen Callihan