J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticable.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Clothes and manners do not make the man, but where he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe
What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.
Jacques Roumain
As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.
Tilda Swinton
Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.
Vladimir Nabokov
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
William Shakespeare
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.
William Shakespeare
Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
Mahatma Gandhi
It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.
William Hague
Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.
George Washington
