J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.

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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.
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You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.