J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
Langhorne Slim -
It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
Karrie Webb -
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
W. G. Sebald -
On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
Carice van Houten -
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo
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I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.
Waris Ahluwalia -
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
W. H. Auden -
Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
Tananarive Due -
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
Malachy McCourt -
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
Vidal Sassoon -
I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
Ted Demme
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I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.
Christina Aguilera -
Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.
Brian Tracy -
It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.
Edwidge Danticat -
Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.
Norman Vincent Peale -
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
Oscar Wilde
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A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
Abraham Isaac Kook -
That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
Adam Hughes -
But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!
Hermann Hesse -
Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien