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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.
I’ve had lots of ideas. For example, I had the idea of making a small version of the Vatican’s dome. I also got ideas from medieval castles – I’ve mixed medieval castles with the Romanesque style.
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.
The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
American fantasy is not a genre we think about too often. Sure, we are familiar with the worlds of English boarding school houses and castles and fairies, but true American fantasy, fantasy that is built on the land of this country, is hard to come by.
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.
I was not someone who participated in other people’s castles.
I realize that I’ve had Ian Van Dahl: ‘Castles in the Sky,’ the Ibiza jam, periodically stuck in my head for years, like years of my life. Every now and then ‘Castles in the Sky’ will just happen. Maybe that’s some sort of indication that it’s actually my favorite song of all time.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
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.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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.
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.
It is so easy for us theorists who build wonderful castles, beautiful ideas. Sometimes, it is remarkable, sometimes these beautiful ideas prove to be close to what the observations tell us. But often and also they turn out to be wrong.
I’m just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.
For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.
The world went tilted in a lovely way – suddenly, television was no longer television. It was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is the new world!’ I got to work with horses and cannons, and fight sequences and castles.
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Sorry, I don’t do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.
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.
You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.
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.
When I watched castles in ‘Alice In Wonderland’ or ‘Snow White,’ I would think of owning a house in white and not 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.
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.
I had always been interested in mythology. I suppose my brief stay in Wales during World War II influenced my writing, too. It was an amazing country. It has marvelous castles and scenery.
You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
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.
‘Castles Made of Sand’ was a song that my parents put me to sleep to, so naturally, it still puts me in a zen state.
I love the Altai Mountains. Crimea, despite all the conflict, is a remarkable place historically, culturally and physically. The mountains drop down into the sea. Porpoises swim in the shallows. Horses gallop through the grass. There are huge rocks, castles, caves.
