Zitat des Tages über Schlösser / Castles:
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors.
I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.
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.
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
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.
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.
You make kingdoms and castles on your own.
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.
Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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.
Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
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.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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 in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
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!
For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.
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.
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.