Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep.
Didn't I tell you, Don Quixote, sir, to turn back, for they were not armies you were going to attack, but flocks of sheep.
Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.
The wildcard here is always management. The industry is slowing and it would be nice to see them pay down some debt and accumulate some cash instead of going off in all these different Don Quixote missions.
A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, 'because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon.' 'Madam, you must be profoundly in error,' said Sir Thomas, 'No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me.'
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Four days later, he still refused to be provoked. As the great Don Quixote said, Let the dogs bark. It's because we are moving forward,' ... If something happens to my physical person, you will know who to blame George W. Bush.
While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress.
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.
The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.
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