Castles Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.

  Rose Kennedy

  Father, Home, Political

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• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

  Walter Moers

  Love, Wall, Book

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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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• Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hate, Long, Guy

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• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Adventure, Opportunity

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.

  Michelle Malkin

  Party, Home, Men

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• My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Kings, Father, Philosophy

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• What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Believe, Thinking, Europe

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• By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!" "There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Disappointment, Mean, Eye

  Lloyd Alexander (2013). “The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Always Trying, Bishops

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• From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of stars. The wind passing over his unscarred face was cold from the snow of the surrounding mountains, and Dustfinger relished life as if he were tasting it for the first time. The longing it brought, and the desire. All the bitterness, all the sweetness, even if it was only for a while, never for more than a while, everything gained and lost, lost and found again.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stars, Reflection, Night

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.491, Scholastic Inc.

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• When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

  Franz Kafka

  Gazing, Causes, Calm

  Franz Kafka, Willa Muir (1974). “The castle”

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• Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Kings, Dark, Towns

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Rose, Alive

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• Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

  Neil Young

  Burning

  Song: Don't Let It Bring You Down, Album: After the Gold Rush, 1970

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• Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-

  Obert Skye

  Dream, Horse, Rainbow

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• I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

  Susan Kay

  Dream

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• All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Wall, Moving, Writing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs

  James Connolly

  Mother, Country, Army

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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• Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross of Christ, we have the means for becoming altogether holy in our walk and conversation. What dungeon is there that can shut us out from this? Only let us use the present location and means faithfully and truly, taking them from God's hand, and we shall find him able to free us from all that is really a hindrance. Let us each one desire to be a saint in his own place and calling, instead of building 'castles in the air' of future holiness.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Mean, Air, Hands

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• I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.

  Frei Otto

  Air, Littles, Built

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• We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles that lose much of their structure when the sea of knowledge washes over them. They turn into hills, leveled ever more, until we are back to where evolutionary theory always leads us: a gently sloping beach.

  Frans de Waal

  Beach, Sea, Apes

  Frans de Waal (2009). “The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society”, p.199, Crown

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• He [the householder] is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle.

  Richard Mulcaster

  House, Circumstances

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