J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.J. R. R. Tolkien
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
Flume -
Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian -
I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
Daniel Cormier -
Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
Calvin Johnson -
You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
Patricia Sun -
Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
Mal Peet
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I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.
Olivier Martinez -
If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
Xavier Niel -
My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
Nathan Kress -
I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
Sam Smith -
I don't believe in happy families.
Pat Conroy -
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.
Ralph Macchio -
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
Mae Jemison -
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant -
It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
Madchen Amick -
Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
Vanessa Hudgens -
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.
Harold Prince
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. Wells -
We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't know that there are that many comedies that try for that.
Lennon Parham -
The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think Jughead's a selfish character. I think he really is.
Cole Sprouse -
You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no love in your heart. You could spend your life feeding the poor and still not make it because your karma required you to bear and nurture children. The path home to God is different for every person. Only communion with your Higher Self will reveal your path to you.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet -
I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
J. R. R. Tolkien