Quotes About Castle

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.

entry into the old imperial castle of Prague, the Hradschin. He described it as follows: 'The Führer went into a barely furnished room, turned to your father, and embraced him, delighted that it had been granted to him to

Why are there mechanical squid in the water cistern?" The Castle sighed. "Why is everyone so surprised about that? Where else would we keep them?

Herr Docktor Getwin Mittelmind (PhD, MD, BFA, University of Salzburg) was a spark who specialized in mad psychology. A specialized field to be sure. He was not locked away in Castle Heterodyne because he built giant anteaters. No, he was locked away in Castle Heterodyne because he could take a perfectly ordinary group of people and within six days they would build a giant anteater—because it was the logical thing to do.

Or you could just blow Castle Wulfenbach out of the sky." Othar clapped his hands in delight. "An excellent suggestion, young apprentice!" Tarvek ignored this. "Except, of course, that Gil is still up there." "Even better," Othar declared. Tarvek briefly considered this, then reluctantly admitted, "But he still has my notes.

Lots of archaeology. Most of it hidden. Overgrown castle mounds and tumps. And hill forts. No official history – like no National Trust stuff, but it's all around you, unlabelled. You need to know what you're looking for. I like that.

Schloss le regarde comme un monstre, un monstre qui a pris l'eau, mais un monstre tout de même.

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

Nessy had never believed that fear and respect were the same thing. Nor did she believe that the castle's manners were beyond redemption, for although her accursed home was mostly bad it was at least a little bit good. She hoped it would be good enough.

The castle never for one day truly functioned as a hotel, and the actual number of World's Fair tourists he's suspected of killing there has remained the same since 1895—a single woman, Nannie Williams.

My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.

At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way --griffins, carnivorous plants, giant serpents, hostile centaurs, that sort of thing, purely routine --and I was beginning to get bored when at last the dusky towers of Castle Roogna hove into view.

I like men and women who don't fit well in the dominant culture, or, as Alvar de Campos calls them, strangers in this place as in every other, accidental in life as in the woul. I like outsiders, phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the doomed castle where life must be lived. David Grossman may love Israel, but he wanders its cobwebbed halls, just as his namesake Vasily wandered Russia's. To write is to know that you are not home.

But why should they rescue you?' he said. 'There you are, sitting in a castle in the beautiful Italian countryside, with your own room and nobody bothering you and complete freedom to do your work. For most people that is a fantasy!' 'I don't know,' Linda said dully. 'I guess it must mean there's something wrong with me.

I used to watch, on television on Sunday nights, they had the Disney hour then and the castle coming up and 'When you wish upon a star... ' That was my very first Disney memory.

housed everything from livestock to the buttery, so that the entire castle was completely

And, long since ashore with his men and his booty, Crawford of Lymond, man of wit and crooked felicities, bred to luxury and heir to a fortune, rode off serenely to Midculter to break into his new sister-in-law's castle.

I wouldn't like to live in a castle now, but I'd enjoy a visit to Restormel in Cornwall in its 13th century prime. It's a circular castle with the rooms built against the outer walls and quite intimate in size. Life there wouldn't follow the pattern of more classic castle design.

Garage-rock eccentric King Khan may be from Montreal, but his heart is almost a thousand miles away, throbbing from Atlanta to Castle City, Mont., until it hits cardiac arrest in Kalamazoo. Khan and His Shrines warn that this so-called 'Land of the Freak' is where only the strong survive, but it's a strength that can't be measured in muscle.

Tómese un viejo castillo medio en ruinas. Un largo pasillo con muchas puertas, varias de ellas han de ser secretas. Tres cadáveres aún sangrantes. Tres esqueletos bien embalados. Una vieja ahorcada con varias puñaladas en el pecho. Ladrones y bandidos a discreción. Una dosis suficiente de susurros, gemidos ahogados y estruendos horrísonos. Mézclese, agítese y escríbase. El cuento está listo

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.

You'll see a lot of actors doing adverts. There's a reason why. I could probably buy a castle if it were in somewhere like Lithuania. Not this country.