Castles Quotes - Page 9

• Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sports, Fashion, Hero

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Book

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.

  Bram Stoker

  Girl, Death, Kings

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Under the Sunset: And Other Stories”, p.8, The Floating Press

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• If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.

  Billy Joel

  Wall, Home, Long

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Nov 08, 2013

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• For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.

  Robert James Waller

  Karma, Moving, Clothes

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• The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Brother, Wall, Storm

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• It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

  Phil Mickelson

  Golf, Play, Design

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• Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

  Peter Padfield

  Wall, Powerful, Ocean

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• How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Adventure, Eye

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.23

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• How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.

  Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

  Men, Past, Air

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• Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Spiritual, Believe

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• The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Thinking, Wife

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• The mistletoe hung in the castle hall,
  The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Christmas, Wall, Hollies

  "The Mistletoe Bough". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

  Barry B. Longyear

  Children, Adventure, Animal

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.  Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.  You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

  Guy Finley

  Moving, Past, Reality

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• Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Enemy, Fame, Suffocating

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• High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Air, Logic, Mortar

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh”, p.36

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• The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

  Garry Wills

  Loneliness, Artist, Creating

  Garry Wills (1979). “Confessions of a conservative”, Doubleday Books

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• White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following.

  Ron Paul

  Strong, Unique, White

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• In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

  Warren Buffett

  Moats, Looks, Economic

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

  Pamela Moore

  Hell, Sand, Impermanence

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• This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.

  Joseph Story

  Military, Men, Law

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• The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.

  Hope Mirrlees

  Sky, Towers, Sides

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.62, F+W Media, Inc.

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• I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along and save you and you're gonna live happily ever after. They're gonna rescue me from the Bronx, and we're gonna go off and live in a castle somewhere and it's gonna be awesome. He's gonna love me forever, and I'm gonna love him forever, and it's gonna be real easy. And it's so different than that.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Real, Kids, Love Is

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• Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

  Paul Tillich

  Anxiety, Doubt, Existential

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