Lurten Quotes & Sayings

long view of the drive and gave that week's — Terry Hayes

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

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga

My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost. — Frances Mayes

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant. — Richard Dawkins

Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. — Kahlil Gibran

Harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived. — Donna Tartt

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. — Andre Breton

My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall. — Liz Goldwyn

If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance. — Karin Gillespie