J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West -
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
Ian Rankin -
I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.
Donna Douglas -
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
Anthony Daniels -
A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
Nachman of Breslov -
If I could have done anything more, it would have been less.
Artie Shaw
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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
Jay-Z -
You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
M. Night Shyamalan -
Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
Bill Vaughan -
John Wooden has been a vital force in the lives of many with his inspirational messages. He represents all the elements necessary to be a winner in the Game of Life, which makes him the perfect person to write this book filled with lessons. Coach Wooden has been a mentor to people in every walk of life.
Dick Vitale -
You know what I will do sometimes? I'll let my phone die... and I will say, 'You know what, I'm not lying, my phone died.'
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.
Norman Vincent Peale
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You've got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I dont miss anything.
Lennox Lewis -
My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.
Vinny Guadagnino -
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
Thomas Hobbes -
It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' Darcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'
Jane Austen -
And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
William Morris
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Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz -
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.
Ian Doescher -
Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
J. R. R. Tolkien