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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Shadow

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• 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.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Best
  • Look
  • Begin

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dark

• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Dark
  • Now
  • Physical

• Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Health
  • Dark

• The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

  

  Pam Brown
  • People
  • Dark
  • Courage

• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Children
  • House

• 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.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Take

• 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.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Secrets

• Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Dark

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Light

• Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Music
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I think there’s a lot of coloured players in all the major teams and there are lots of coloured players who are probably the best in the Premier League. If you look at 25 or 30 years ago it was probably in a bad way – not as bad as some of the other nations on the Continent – but certainly there is always, always room for improvement.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Bad
  • Improvement

• I tend to side with people who are considered the underdog. I have empathy.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People
  • Empathy

• This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Ocean
  • Charming
  • Trusted

• There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Dark
  • Refuse
  • Begin