J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
There was one picture in particular which bothered him. It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots.J. R. R. Tolkien
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
Madhuri Dixit -
Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham -
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
Early Wynn -
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Ted Rall -
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu -
The apartheid system renounces no violence.
Oliver Tambo
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
Rachel Boston -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar -
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
Aaron Sorkin -
You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
Pat Conroy -
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
Damien Chazelle -
I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
Walt Dohrn -
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
Bas Rutten -
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
Bas Rutten -
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
Naomi Klein -
I really love fish, so I'll mix between that and meat, but I have to have protein. I can't survive without it.
Ana Ivanovic -
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.
Joe Biden -
I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.
Deborah Wiles -
There was one picture in particular which bothered him. It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots.
J. R. R. Tolkien