J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Community
  • Peace

• When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • You
  • Hell
  • Half

• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Good
  • Like

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • You
  • Play
  • Write

• Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Gossip
  • Regrets
  • Bonding

• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Society

• I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Made
  • I Love

• You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Me
  • Morning
  • Brother

• It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • More
  • Accomplish

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Think
  • Man
  • Laugh

• I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Natural
  • Anything

• Grace can and does have a history.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • History
  • Grace
  • Does

• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Up
  • Want

• Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Good
  • Important
  • Bad

• Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

  

  John Harvey Kellogg
  • Work
  • Money
  • Devil

• This is the last chance, and I would like to make a call for negotiations in good will to solve this tragedy.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Chance
  • Tragedy
  • Negotiations

• A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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