#towers

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #towers




Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.


Joan Cusack


#because #been #bulgaria #communist #corners

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?


Christopher Marlowe


#face #launched #ships #thousand #topless

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.


Jodi Picoult


#birth #could #distracted #done #every

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.


J.R.R. Tolkien


#language #name #the-two-towers #tolkien #love

Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a tower—" At this the Witch spat, again rolling her marvelous eyes. "Those revolting creatures are always getting themselves locked up. If only they would stay that way.


Catherynne M. Valente


#maidens #towers #witches #humor

It is a lovely language,but it takes a very long time to say anything in it,unless it is worth taking a long time to say,and to listen to. -Treebeard/Fangorn


J.R.R. Tolkien


#towers #treebeard #two #love