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Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. -- Jimi Hendrix
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. -- Henrik Ibsen
You make kingdoms and castles on your own. -- Stephan Jenkins
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. -- Richard Whately
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. -- Rita Rudner
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. -- Claude McKay
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -- Henry David Thoreau
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
Castles are Forrests of stones. -- George Herbert
A man's house is his castle. -- James Otis
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. -- John Bunyan
He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child. -- Ozzy Osbourne
There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play. -- Don Bluth
Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington. -- Sebastian Bach
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead. -- Bram Stoker
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. -- Anthony Trollope
Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others. -- David Soul
Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle. -- Bill Wyman
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. -- Edward Coke
Many CastlesOn My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the oasis Where the heart And the silence Intertwine. -- silent lotus
I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles. -- L.M. Montgomery
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. -- Jerome Lawrence
Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." - commentary on Castles on the Sand -- E.M. Tippetts
New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut. -- Craig Kilborn
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. -- Horatio Alger
Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose. He flipped the coin. It bounced on the table and, impossibly, landed on edge. ThereÂ´s always another choice, Kylar said. -- Brent Weeks
I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years. -- Max Muller
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too. -- Martha Reeves
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. -- Bram Stoker
I was getting really influenced by some darker, heavier electro stuff, like Crystal Castles. And I was listening to some dub-step elements, so I thought this was going to be the natural progression, taking my soft melodies and my soft voice and marrying it with something a little heavier. -- Lights
What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age. -- Diane Kruger
I was not someone who participated in other people's castles. -- Stephan Jenkins
I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside. -- Lily Collins
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? -- Eliza Cook
Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them. -- David Frost
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -- Henry David Thoreau
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. -- Roger Ebert
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities. -- Ben Okri
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've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like. -- Natalie Dormer
By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat. -- Ayelet Waldman
Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood. -- Vic Morrow
I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood. -- Richard Matheson
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
I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon! -- Catherine Bell
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong. -- Terry Jones
Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community. -- Afrika Bambaataa
Build castles in the air. -- Robert A. Burton
Fear of vikings build castles. -- Charles Manson
Build castles, don't dig graves. -- David J. Schwartz
Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Sand castles just aren't made to last. -- Alice Yi-Li Yeh
Tis best to build no castles in the air. -- Fanny Burney
We admire the castles, because we admire the security! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
No tribute is laid on castles in the air. -- Charles Churchill
I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas. -- Libba Bray
99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks. -- Demetri Martin
I was not someone who participated in other people's castles -- Stephan Jenkins
Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. -- Warren Buffett
You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky -- Banksy
You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars. -- Diana Wynne Jones
I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air. -- Frei Otto
Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. -- Haruki Murakami
I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream" - -- Taylor Swift
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground. -- Edward Gibbon
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground. -- Victor Hugo
Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big- -- Obert Skye
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. -- Maxim Gorky
All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease. -- Bob Hope
Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them. -- David Frost
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles. -- Samuel Johnson
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. -- Josh Billings
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide. -- Edsger Dijkstra
The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea. -- Nicholas Sparks
Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors. -- Luke Evans
You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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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
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air. -- Larry Constantine
You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats. -- Maya Angelou
Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing. -- Jay Ellis
O seasons, O castles,What soul is without flaws?All its lore is known to me,Felicity, it enchants us all. -- Arthur Rimbaud
I've been in a lot of castles, and they are pretty damp, cold and gloomy. However, I love Windsor Castle in England. -- Tracie Peterson
Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. -- Shannon Hale
Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them? -- Louisa May Alcott
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
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. -- Joni Mitchell
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. -- Shannon Hale
There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes. -- Frank Laubach
When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing. -- Justin Adams
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
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air. -- Thomas Love Peacock
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
Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate. -- Markus Zusak
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. -- John Dewey
The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria. -- John Ashcroft
No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned. -- William Osler
I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like -- Natalie Dormer
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
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. -- Rabih Alameddine
The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul. -- Terri Windling
And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad. -- Oswald Spengler
Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air. -- Álvaro Mutis
Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air. -- Álvaro Mutis
I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things. -- Richard Dawkins
I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere. -- Kofi Annan
There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. -- Washington Irving
Now is our time. It's our time to chase rainbows and build castles in the sky. It's our time to create a life that we love. Because someday, it will no longer be our time. -- Shawn Anderson

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