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
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold

• 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
  • Man
  • Way
  • Standards

• If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Way
  • Friend
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• 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
  • Women
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• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• 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
  • Time
  • School
  • Understand

• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Doubt
  • Wise

• Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.

  

  Valerie June
  • Good
  • Way
  • Like

• I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Away

• Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Understand
  • Motivational

• 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
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffering

• 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
  • Way
  • Me
  • Person

• It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Wise Man

• The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Power
  • Wise
  • Same

• '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
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Letter

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Understand
  • Guys
  • Silhouette

• All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.

  

  Barbara Cameron
  • Understand
  • Accept
  • God's Plan

• I always pan-fry sprouts - it retains texture and enhances flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Always
  • Texture
  • Enhances

• Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Taken

• Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

  

  Archimedes
  • Mathematics
  • Secrets
  • Pure Love

• 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
  • Way
  • Wise
  • Understand