J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
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I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.
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I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
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Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
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To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
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She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep.Prayers didn’t do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him)
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His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
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My own room is next the bath room said Bernard it is decerated dark red as I have somber tastes. The bath room has got a tip up bason and a hose thing for washing your head.
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This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive.
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When I was a kid, I played 'Super Mario Bros' and 'Megaman 2' and '3' for hours and hours, trying to convince my mother they were good for me because they helped my hand-eye coordination. They influenced a whole generation of people to make computers what they are now, through problem-solving and so on.
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'Dream' is about having fears and doing your best to embrace them no matter how strenuous the grip is.
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Heaven-gates are not so highly archedAs princes' palaces; they that enter thereMust go upon their knees.
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Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
