Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Pope Osborne

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

Since the early 90s, we have been a decentralized company, focusing on 21 separate businesses, ... While this structure was innovative and successful for our company then, it is time to dismantle the castle walls and empty the moats.

Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Castle in Ayrshire.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

She used to be the queen in the castle on the hill, looking down on everyone else in the valley, ... Now she's in the valley with everyone else, fighting it out on a level terrain.

David Hewson

Lympne Castle opens its doors to visitors during the summer only. It is privately owned, and more an interesting medieval manor than a castle.

Colin Morgan

When I think of Camelot, I think of the castle in France where we film, but I think it's wrong to lock it down to one place because it's all part of our imagination. They are legends for a reason. Their stories have endured for hundreds of years and, hopefully, they will for hundreds of years to come.

We worked a lot on our passing. Castle Rock played hard and they gave us a tough game, especially in the first half. They are much improved over last year and I wish them luck in their league.

Tamora Pierce

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

Allen Klein

We have made demands to Castle Village, and I have had conversations about paying the city expenses, ... I've been patient in not filing a lawsuit.

William Wallace

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.

Castle Rock always plays us tough. They play hard-nosed defense. But I told the girls coming in, if we make our free throws we'll be alright.

But the specific use of juveniles rotating from Detroit to New Castle was something much more organized than we've seen with others.

Richard Turner

If the government did more to promote the castle it would be good for business.

David Frost

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

Skylar Diggins

This will inspire me for next year. I'm ready to start the season up again. ... Castle is a great team. We knew they would take it to us.

With one Castle Test completed, we are now able to reduce the squad to 14 players and will reduce it further to 13 for the last Castle Test at Liberty Life Wanderers.

Rob Reiner

I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books.

Someone put a lid on the bucket. We missed all 17 of our 3-pointers. We were 17-of-74 from the field. We were 16-of-31 from the line. Castle Rock out-hustled us and out-worked us. We had a big enough lead that we were able to hold on, but we did not play with a sense of urgency and we missed a lot of shots.

Al Green

Texas was settled by people who were willing to fence in their property and protect it. We take seriously the notion that a person's home is his castle, and to protect that castle from the king and his men.

I wish I had a good castle I could safely work on in the Middle East. If we were there now, we probably couldn't safely stay there.

It is not every day you see a Scottish castle in the middle of a river.

Playing for Coach Lauro really made you feel prepared for college. That's a scary feeling when you're a 17-year-old kid leaving New Castle to go to Virginia Tech, but you just knew you were prepared because he worked you so hard you were going to survive that.

Jethro Tull

Sand castle virtues are all swept away, in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

Clare Luce

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

George Herbert

Castles are Forrests of stones.

Franz Kafka

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

Julian Barnes

Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards it, mines it, assaults it - and each time the smoke clears, the castle is as solid as ever.

Gaz Coombes

The things we used to have/ Are fading all too fast, ... Like a castle in the sand/ Well some things they're meant to last.

Patrick White

In 1964, submerged by the suburbs reaching farther into the country, we left Castle Hill, and moved into the centre of the city.

It's in the Old Castle Tavern at St Andrews, ... In two pieces!

I've heard Castle is really good, a real tough bunch.

In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.