Ocidente Medieval Quotes & Sayings

I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his. — Kiefer Sutherland

Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine's 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees."
"What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inqired Jessamine. — Cassandra Clare

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it. — Leonard Shlain

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license. — George Chapman

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. — Anne Fadiman

Time, if not space, renders all of us travelers. Cling as we might, we are ultimately compelled to let go of the familiar, to forge affinities with the new, and to sense the approach of the more unfamiliar still. We feel our way. If we are as fortunate as the Blind Traveler, we are given the grace to listen, with equal attention, to the intelligence of winds and the solemnity of silence. To remain, joyfully, awake to the path itself. — Jason Roberts

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures. — Bill Walton

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed. — Taylor Caldwell