Castles Quotes - Page 11

• I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a little red sports car? Wear a lot of jewelry? Build a castle? Well... I might do the last one. Maybe. Eventually. But that doesn't mean I can't run Worldbuilders too.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sports, Running, Mean

  "Patrick Rothfuss Interview: The 2013 Fantasy Pin-Up Calendar". Interview with Shawn Speakman, www.unboundworlds.com. October 29, 2012.

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• A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't have been made and we wouldn't be putting our energy into it. It's relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you're effected by that, whether it's costumes or funny beards or castles.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Mirrors, Age, Different

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Chrisitna Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.

  Prince William

  Art, Law, House

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• My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wall, Home, House

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Jan. 1829-Sept. 1831”

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• Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Marriage, Queens, Mean

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.334, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

  John Paul Stevens

  Retirement, Home, Vacation

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• By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Soccer, Mother, Children

  "The centre of my universe" by Ayelet Waldman, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.

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• And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.

  Oswald Spengler

  Believe, Air, Creating

  Oswald Spengler (1942). “The Hour of Decision, Part One: Germany and World-historical Evolution”

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• Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Law

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• I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.

  Mickey Cohen

  Men, East, Kingdoms

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• I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so.

  Harriet Quimby

  Country, Eye, Machines

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• Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.

  Christine de Pizan

  War, Believe, Skills

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• Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness they could never show to anyone else. Perhaps they gave strength to their Kings, because everyone else only took it from them.

  David Gaider

  Kings, Queens, Darkness

  David Gaider (2010). “The Stolen Throne”, p.367, Titan Books

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• How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands. Know that the body is a fragile jar, And make a castle of your mind. In every trial Let understanding fight for you To defend what you have won.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fighting, Men, Meditation

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• In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always islands of self-sufficient order — on farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters — where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives: as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

  Erik Erikson

  Happiness, Home, People

  "Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History".

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• Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Past, Reality

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I can catch you at the bottom." He flew down so incautiously that I suspected him of years of practice in his own castle. It was my turn. The ride was a dream, longer and steeper than the rail at home. The hall rose to meet me, and Char was there. He caught me and spun me around.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Dream, Home, Years

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• One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

  James Otis

  Men, House, Liberty

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2

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• I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

  Goldie Hawn

  Children, Truth, Sky

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• I wanted to make a fan film for a character I've always loved and believed in - a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in their time just for the fun of it. It's been a blast to be a part of from start to finish - we hope the friends of Frank enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.

  Thomas Jane

  Fun, Character, Fans

  "COMIC-CON 2012: Watch The Punisher: Dirty Laundry with Thomas Jane" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. July 16, 2012.

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• The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie catacombs, mysterious ruins, and creepy castles that defy imagination. One part Indiana Jones, a handful of Swiss Family Robinson, and some Intergalactic excitement, the Quest for Truth is a riveting tale of just how far mankind will go for the ultimate prize.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Kids, Eerie, Imagination

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• Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Garden, Yesterday, Remembrance

  Queen Elizabeth II's Dublin Castle Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2011.

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• At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.

  Piers Anthony

  Couple, Journey, Views

  Piers Anthony (1985). “Crewel lye: a caustic yarn”, Del Rey

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• A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

  Lucille Kallen

  Pain, Home, Men

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• People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.

  Prince Philip

  Fire, Water, People

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