J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.J. R. R. Tolkien
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua -
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
Tallulah Bankhead -
You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
Vanessa Ferlito -
The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
Danica Patrick -
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
Valerie June -
I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.
Edgar Wright
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
Wayne Dyer -
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang -
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
Yoko Ono -
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
Carly Fiorina -
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Xenophanes -
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Walter Savage Landor
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
R. Kelly -
Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
Faith Hill -
If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
Eddie Trunk -
The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Vincent Canby -
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
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The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
Robert Baden-Powell -
If you think lack you tend to create a condition of lack. Shift your thought pattern to one of abundance and believe that God is now in the process of giving you the abundance you need.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
J. R. R. Tolkien