J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Pat Barker -
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler -
I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
Major Owens -
I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
Nargis Fakhri -
I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
Gamaliel Bailey
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
Karen Handel -
At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
Dan Jenkins -
Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
Hamza Yusuf -
For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
Ian Lustick -
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields -
It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
Ian Mckellen
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There is nothing so striking to the eye on a return to England from the Continent as the stateliness of our trees. I do not know of any trees in Europe to compare with ours.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
Imelda Marcos -
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
Nathalie Sarraute -
Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
Jack Nicholson -
I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
Patricia Heaton -
Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
Barack Obama
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There’s a graveyard of prior attempts, a big graveyard. There’s probably some freshly dug graves just waiting to be filled. Our aspiration is to avoid that destination.
Elon Musk -
I tell my clients to feel powerful - you and only you own your power. You are the one who can make yourself eat right, work out and not touch the biscuits.
Jessie Pavelka -
I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
Talulah Riley -
I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.
Walker Percy -
When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me.
Archpoet -
He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.
J. R. R. Tolkien