J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

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• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Never
  • Goal

• The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Time
  • Never
  • Service

• People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movie

• Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Beat
  • Fighters

• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Time
  • Forget
  • Opponent

• I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • Day
  • India

• I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • Live
  • Love

• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Circumstances

• It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • World
  • Change

• At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Time
  • Sense
  • Experienced

• I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Time
  • Law
  • Born

• When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Period

• I lived in Scotland a long time, and I became aware of Mogwai really from the beginning. They seemed to be fusing hard music structure and sort of raw sonics. They're just very creative thinkers, musical thinkers.

  

  Max Richter
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to get beyond that sometimes.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • World
  • Important

• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Road
  • Curiosity

• I have never had other kids in the house... I had a huge collection of marbles, and they all had names, which I think concerned my parents. I used to go and sweep outside and talk to myself, and my mum's friends would be over and say, 'Do you realise she is talking to herself?'

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • She
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
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