J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Water

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Me
  • Gold
  • Sight

• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

  

  Sai Baba
  • God
  • Nature
  • Night

• By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able to make use of all the mistakes of other nations. But it nah go just drop out of the sky. So we have to put in work.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Sky
  • Hat

• I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Three
  • Inspiring
  • Sight

• So on and onwe walked without thinking of restpassing craters, passing fire,under the rocking sky of '41tottering crazy on its smoking columns.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Fire

• It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Time
  • Men
  • True

• And in the morning when the sun rise.Look in the water, see the blue sky.As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Water
  • Morning
  • Heaven

• And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Dark
  • Vision

• Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

  

  Bob Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Together
  • Giving

• Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

  

  Bradley Chicho
  • Black
  • Universe
  • Sky

• Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

  

  Joe Hill
  • Work
  • Live
  • Die

• The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

  

  John Hench
  • Up
  • Color
  • Sky

• Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.

  

  David Sanborn
  • Music
  • Sky

• If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Up
  • Night
  • Gold

• There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin - your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Dream
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.

  

  Katie Leung
  • Decision

• It is the best thing to have great games, and the tiredness matters little.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Great

• I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

  

  Kevin Costner

• And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Sky
  • Sight
  • Kissed