A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
— Jerome Lawrence
Colossal Building Castles In The Air quotations
I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere.
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea;
the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.
No tribute is laid on castles in the air.
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.
There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.
You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.
You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.
Look you, Amanda, you may build Castles in the Air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no Man worth having is true to his Wife, or can be true to his Wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
Tis best to build no castles in the air.
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.