Medieval Romances Quotes & Sayings

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over. — Tom Stoppard

The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained. — Charles-Francois Dupuis

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that. — Thomas Perez

One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never any problems with anybody. — Matthew Lewis

To make Hakomi effective a practitioner must be more than just someone who knows a method. The practitioner must be someone whose very presence can be healing, a person who has all the qualities needed to support emotional healing in another. — Ron Kurtz

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. — Edmund Burke

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film. — Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God. — Joanna Southcott

Most of all, kink comes up in my writing because that is, very simply, just the way the cat o' nine tails flails. Any writer knows that there isn't always an explanation for the behaviors of his or her characters and the subjects of his or her storylines. For whatever reason, kink just kind of comes out of me. — Alistair Cross

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original. — Steve Lacy

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge. — Tina St. John

Silence, silence.' All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Fifty — Aldous Huxley

Angela Carter ... refused to join in rejecting or denouncing fairy tales, but instead embraced the whole stigmatized genre, its stock characters and well-known plots, and with wonderful verve and invention, perverse grace and wicked fun, soaked them in a new fiery liquor that brought them leaping back to life. From her childhood, through her English degree at the University of Bristol where she specialised in Medieval Literature, and her experiences as a young woman on the folk-music circuit in the West Country, Angela Carter was steeped in English and Celtic faerie, in romances of chivalry and the grail, Chaucerian storytelling and Spenserian allegory, and she was to become fairy tale's rescuer, the form's own knight errant, who seized hold of it in its moribund state and plunged it into the fontaine de jouvence itself.
(from "Chamber of Secrets: The Sorcery of Angela Carter") — Marina Warner