If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big- — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose. He flipped the coin. It bounced on… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
It isn’t a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley… — Erica Tazel Copy Share Image
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that… — Bob Altemeyer Copy Share Image
You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Such is the lot of the knight that even though my patrimony were ample and adequate for my support, nevertheless here are… — Ulrich von Hutten Copy Share Image
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? — Eliza Cook Copy Share Image
“You must build castles in the air, how else will you learn to build?” — Haresh Sippy Copy Share Image
In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I discovered that my castles stand upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand. — Coldplay Copy Share Image
