J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Precious
  • Irreplaceable

• Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Art
  • Me
  • Attention

• Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Life
  • Precious
  • Fragile

• This is the most precious gift anyone has ever received. You gave me back a memory that I will cherish forever. You gave me something from my grandma I didn't know I had. And you kept it and it lef you back to mme. It gave me you'' I felt a wetness in my eyes and I blinked confused from the strange sensation. A small trickle of water rand down my cheek. I stared into the darkness as I held Pagan in my arms in amazement Death had just shed a tear.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Gift
  • Precious
  • Received

• Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Precious

• Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wants
  • Precious
  • iss

• Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Loving
  • Precious

• Children are precious gifts to us all.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Children
  • Gifts
  • Precious

• Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Man
  • Idea

• Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Time
  • Precious
  • Limited

• God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• I do believe in love; it's wonderful – especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Love

• No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.

  

  Neil Cross
  • Run
  • Hold
  • Precious

• The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Precious

• Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

  

  Sharon Horgan
  • Actors
  • Precious
  • Comedians

• When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Today
  • College
  • Brother

• At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Great
  • Want
  • Design

• In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • End
  • Matter

• 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Trouble
  • Genius
  • Transcendent

• My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Wine
  • Too Much

• Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the play around that character. You have to make choices with that actor. If you have an actor that really doesn't get the role and has certain visions of the role, sometimes you have to direct around that actor.

  

  Nilo Cruz
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Director

• Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Precious
  • Crunchable