Castles Quotes
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When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
Michael Caine
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It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button.
Esther Hicks -
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
Victor Hugo -
I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.
Oliver Sykes Bring Me the Horizon -
We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.
Ariel Pink -
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
Bram Stoker -
Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.
William Allingham
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The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.
Nicholas Sparks -
Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.
William Goldman -
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.
Joanne Rowling -
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
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A man's head is his castle.
Joseph Heller -
O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
Arthur Rimbaud -
As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
William Wallace -
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
William Cobbett -
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
C. S. Lewis -
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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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 -
I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.
Gaelen Foley -
Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
Haruki Murakami