In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.
If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her "castle," I thought I should know.
With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.
There have been many great newspapermen, but to my mind, only two have achieved immortality: Pulitzer for his endowment and William Randolph Hearst for his castle.
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.
Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.
Chicago is one of my favorite cities because it has great sand, weather and an enthusiastic crowd.
That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.
If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.
Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.
For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean
I've always wanted to ride a sail barge and drive a sand skiff.
I grew up in the north of England, in New Castle, which is where Hadrian's Wall starts on the east coast of England and then goes across to the west.
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
It's gonna be awesome! A suspected pedophile dunks my kids head in a bucket so when she dies she can live in an invisible castle. Set the alarm!
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.
There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen
Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME!
The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.
Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.
Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries.
Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.
There's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand.
I'm a culture person when I'm working, so my downtime is beach time: sand, surf and a barbecue.
Putting our heads in the sand won't stop the inexorable advancement of technology.
Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.
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.
Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
work came out of it.
I always say, if you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.
It is one thing to do your dance on a beach and quite another to collaborate intimately with the sand.
A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?
I would like to see Jay Lethal and Dalton Castle join the company. Both have made their name in Ring of Honor, and their addition can make WWE a very exciting place.
There is no hope the future will but turn the old sand in the falling glass of time.
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.
All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness." Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle and stuff.
Riding is my passion, but a very close second is sun, sand, and surf.
As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.
Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.
I grew up with a big backyard that led to the sand dunes of Lake Michigan.
We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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