Castles Quotes - Page 4

• Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

  Claude McKay

  Reality, Air, Political

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• Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

  Horatio Alger

  Art, War, School

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• There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

  John Bunyan

  Doubt, Despair, Giants

  John Bunyan, William Mason (of Rotherithe.) (1814). “The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come: delivered under the similitude of a dream ... In three parts”, p.127

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• There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Games, Play

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• For a man's house is his castle.

  Edward Coke

  Home, Men, House

  The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England ch. 73 (1644)

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• It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

  Enya

  Want, Cold, Huge

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

  Franz Schubert

  Garden, House, Fine

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• I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

  Stephan Jenkins

  People

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

  Bill Wyman

  Girl, Baby, House

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• Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump,” said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. “How did you get out of the castle?” “I think Filch must’ve forgotten to lock the doors,” said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Doors, Track

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• Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Money, Business, Years

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• What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.

  Diane Kruger

  Hate, Men, Age

  "Diane Kruger for “Troy”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

  Craig Kilborn

  Cutting, Giving, Rumor

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• When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.

  Christopher Meloni

  Cutting, Men, Hair

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• Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.

  Sebastian Bach

  Years, Shows, Wells

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• From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

  Ian Rankin

  Children, Sleep, Cities

  Ian Rankin (2010). “Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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• No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

  William Osler

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.38, ACP Press

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• And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
  That I'm tired of Castles in the Air
  I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls
  Just leave me to despair
  Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
  A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die
  I'm asking you, to say my last good-bye
  The love we knew, ain't worth another try

  Don McLean

  Dream, Song, Wall

  Song: Castles in The Air

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• Tis best to build no castles in the air.

  Fanny Burney

  Air, Castles In The Air

  Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke (2011). “The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787”, p.293, Oxford University Press

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• Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

  William Cobbett

  Cities, Majestic, Hills

  William Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett (1853). “Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively”, p.52

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• I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!

  Catherine Bell

  Husband, Museums, Mountain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Luxembourg was and still is today a crossroads, the place where Germany meets the rest of Europe. The country lost part of its territory to Belgium in the 1800s, and during World Wars I and II the German military overran it. Very few people have visited Luxembourg - when I went there and looked at it, I said, my God, it's built on a rock. And within the rock they had a castle, and within the city there's a network of tunnels so the residents could move around and defend themselves. That was of great interest to me.

  I. M. Pei

  Country, Military, War

  Source: archtalks.com

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• You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.

  John Vanbrugh

  Men, Air, Wife

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.317

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• She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Song: I Wanna Learn A Love Song

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• By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

  John Dewey

  Reading, Men, Air

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.48, 谷月社

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