J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. “What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

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• It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Director

• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Father
  • Always

• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Think

• If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Think
  • Me
  • Person

• I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Wish
  • More
  • I Wish

• There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Movies

• Look, if you take the best batting team in the world, they too will have their weaknesses - otherwise, wouldn't they win all the time? You mention any team to me, and I will pick out for you a dozen weaknesses. But that is not the point - these things, like fielding, running between wickets, all these are technical things, they can be learnt and practised.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• Take my hand, we'll make it i swear.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Hand

• It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Truth

• Nothing in the past is as important as the future.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Important
  • Future
  • Past

• There are items that have far superior quality when manufactured in space, but need to be returned to Earth to be purchased and used by customers.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Quality

• It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Character

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Die

• In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.

  

  Fred Ward
  • Beginning

• When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first three movies, all in Cuba.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • School

• As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

  

  George Foreman
  • Entrepreneur
  • Crowds

• The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans.

  

  David Green
  • Health
  • Morning
  • Insurance

• I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Mean
  • Comic
  • Dragons

• Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

  

  Charles Hartshorne
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Philosophy

• There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth...just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Giving

• Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. “What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mean
  • Morning
  • Eyebrows