Castles Quotes - Page 17

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

Horace Walpole

Family, Real, Ancient

Horace Walpole, G. M. B. (1840). “The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story. With a Memoir of the Author”, p.2

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A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

Charles Hummel

Wall, Home, Men

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And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?

Paul Elie

Dark, Woods, Way

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If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

James Connolly

Army, Effort, Flags

James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.124, Pluto Press

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In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'

Seanbaby

Fighting, Men, Jeans

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I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots of takes, and everyone there is a talent machine. It is a taxing endeavour to say the least, but when you get into a groove, it doesn't matter if you're tired, it doesn't matter if you're sick. You can do it.

Nathan Fillion

Tired, Long, Sick

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Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

Arsene Houssaye

Happiness, Feet, Ruins

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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Henry Ward Beecher

Temptation, Enemy, Entrances

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Jethro Tull

Future, Moral, Sand

Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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So, I went to Germany and ended up parasailing around this castle. I was in Germany sightseeing, eating Bratwurst and hanging out in beer gardens. And then, I got back from Germany and got a call where they were like, "We need to fly you to New York tomorrow to read with Taylor [Schilling]." I was like, "Wait, for Alex, the manipulative drug-smuggling lesbian girl?!," and they were like, "Yeah."

Laura Prepon

Girl, New York, Beer

Source: collider.com

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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!

William Shakespeare

Kings, Wall, Farewell

'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155

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You know how they say a man's house is his castle? I think for a woman, it's her body. I feel so strongly about a woman's right to choose. This is my Zionism. It's not a "right" any more than it's a right to breathe, to take in oxygen.

Jamaica Kincaid

Men, Thinking, Oxygen

"“Our Sassy Black Friend” Jamaica Kincaid". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. January, 2013.

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When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Powerful, Intelligent, Laughing

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Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

Pete Seeger

Kings, Queens, Europe

Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Aquariums, Other Cultures, Others Opinions

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Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Knives, Gossip, Potatoes

Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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I can only tell where I feel most at home, which is in the erosional landscape of the red rock desert of southern Utah, where the Colorado River cuts through sandstone and the geologic history of the Earth is exposed: our home in Castle Valley.

Terry Tempest Williams

Home, Cutting, Rocks

Source: therumpus.net

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There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.

Peter Capaldi

Art, Cities, Scotland

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Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

Shana Alexander

Fashion, Song, Art

Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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I'll say something else about Christine O'Donnell. You ready? I'd rather look at her than Mike Castle. I think she's kind of cute. I think she's kind of refreshing. She's a conservative. What's the problem?

Rush Limbaugh

Cute, Thinking, Looks

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books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

Louisa May Alcott

Book, Comfort, Delight

Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.3951, e-artnow

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The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

Oswald Chambers

Sky, Giving, Vision

Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.395, Discovery House

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I would love do a guest spot on Castle because Nathan Fillion is so dreamy, and he and I are friends. And I think we could have a lot of fun.

Callie Thorne

Fun, Thinking, Guests

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In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles.

Maria Popova

Order, Ideas, Discipline

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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Heraclitus

Children, Men, Sea

"Contemporary Literature in Translation". Issues 23-32 (p. 21), 1976.

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