Fortress Like Quotes

#1. There was a stiff bell-pull instead of a doorbell that Teddy had to yank hard for any result. They could hear a faint ringing somewhere beyond the fortress-like front door. No footsteps of anyone rushing to open it. It was a house in mourning, Teddy supposed.

Kate Atkinson

#2. Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois.
You don't get lost in the woods behind your house.
You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.

Travis Thrasher

#3. Death is a huge cliff and when you are about to be thrown off it, like an Aztec sacrifice, other problems on the valley floor look very small, but once on the ground with the rest of the world they become again of dominating proportions.

Elizabeth Ironside

#4. And all the shelves rising up around her like book-lined walls of a fortress, safe in here, always safe in here from the world, guarded by books and all the secrets inside them, all the things hardly anyone else will ever care to learn.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#5. It's all papers and forms, the entire Civil Service is like a fortress made of papers, forms and red tape.

Alexander Ostrovsky

#6. There is nowhere for this to go that's good and you know it, just like me."
"The only thing I know is, what's at the end of the road we're on is unknown. Along the way, I break through that fortress you've built around you and manage to extract your head from your ass, it'll be worth the trip.

Kristen Ashley

#7. And just like magic, the Isle of the Lost began to form before their eyes, including the hidden and forbidden zones. The Forbidden Fortress appeared, a menacing-looking castle of spiky walls and twisty towers, located on the edge of the island. Right in the middle of Nowhere.

Melissa De La Cruz

#8. I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'

Finn Wittrock

#9. You can't turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you've created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can't see it anymore.

Katherine Allred

#10. The black ice of that dark fortress received the sunlight like a mortal wound.

Salman Rushdie

#11. The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law.

Abdul Sattar Edhi

#12. The day here is a something without value, a mere torment suffered by living creatures as they await the night. Night is deliverance.

Tayeb Salih

#13. My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns from a fortress.

Jane Birkin

#14. If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress.

Mike Birbiglia

#15. When I was in Colditz, that impenetrable fortress, whittling away my life, I wanted to know this."
"Looks like you're still there, Shura."
"No," he said. "I'm in New York, a fly on the wall, trying to see you without me.

Paullina Simons

#16. Its time to figure out what makes you happy and just do it. Worst comes to worst, you make a mistake and then you change paths. That's the best freaking part of being a teenager.

Dahlia Adler

#17. A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.

Helen Steiner Rice

#18. I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

Shyam Selvadurai

#19. A school library is like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

True, the superhero is more likely to be wearing a cardigan than a batsuit, but still...

Tom Angleberger

#20. You don't judge a tree by the name it Wears, you judge a tree by the fruit it Bears.

R.v.m.

#21. It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#22. Doing this always calmed her. It was like imagining the protective walls of an impenetrable fortress. She

Liane Moriarty

#23. Because,if you didn't allow yourself to love, you would risk losing everything.

Camilla Lackberg

#24. Turning the pages of this encoded codex, I realize that the books I love most are like open cities, with all sorts of ways to wander in. This thing is a fortress with no front gate. You're meant to scale the walls, stone by stone.

Robin Sloan

#25. Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ----- Bruce Lee

Patrick James Ryan

#27. Beyond the snowy trees, the endless high-rises of Seoul have faded to a blurry gray shadow, but their presence hasn't dwindled. Even in the poor visibility, there's no denying that the city feels like the walls of a fortress, a fortress that is both protecting us and trapping us.

Paula Stokes

#28. And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate ...

Washington Irving

#29. Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

Edward T. Welch

#30. And that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude.
Arthur Sinclair

Max Brooks

#31. There is something about a bathroom that feels like a fortress. A closed bathroom door may only be about two inches of plywood, but it feels like an iron bar.

Ursula Vernon

#32. Testing a product is a learning process

Brian Marick

#33. Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid.

Maria Montessori

#34. A big part of the fun of working on Superman has been coming up with new characters and concepts to toss in, helping to design their costumes, things like that. And I spent ages coming up with the name 'Fortress of Solidarity,' so I want to get as much use out of it as I can!

Chris Roberson

#35. One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, Bless you.

Robert Breault

#36. Think it's as though everyone has a small place inside themselves, maybe, a private bit that they keep to themselves. It's like a little fortress, where the most private part of you lives - maybe it's your soul, maybe just that bit that makes you yourself and not anyone else.

Diana Gabaldon