Transylvania Quotes:

What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow.

- Elizabeth Kostova

topic: Believe, Thinking, Europe, Transylvania

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

- Bram Stoker

topic: May, Way, England, Transylvania

I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania. ... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.

- Renee Zellweger

source: "Down With Renée". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. April 16, 2003.

topic: Jobs, Believe, House, Significant Other, Transylvania

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Children, College, Kentucky, Transylvania

Because we had to convince the scientific members of Transylvania that with the procedure I was using on the creature, Dr. Frankenstein could be taught to be a civilized human being, what I called a man about town. Instead of a monster who's going to kill their children, it was someone who could sing and dance.

- Gene Wilder

source: Source: keranews.org

topic: Children, Men, Monsters, Dr Frankenstein, Transylvania