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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The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
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My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.
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While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.
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I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.
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Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.
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There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
