J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
Zendaya -
I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
Sam Rockwell -
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick -
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
Ed O'Neill -
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz -
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
Vince Gill
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I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?
Adam Driver -
I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.
Taylor Sheridan -
After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.
Hans Frank -
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius -
She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
Khaled Hosseini -
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
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Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quislegerit, hic sapiet.Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet istasomnia missa sibi.
Ausonius -
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
Edward St Aubyn -
It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
Chelsea Handler -
Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
Mason Cooley -
I'm a member at Equinox because I love the classes. I also enjoy hiking, swimming, and skiing.
Hannah Bronfman -
Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline.
Lisa Snowdon
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We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.
Sarah Hall -
No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie -
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.
Colleen McCullough -
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.
Socrates -
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
Rowan Williams -
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
J. R. R. Tolkien