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
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• 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

• I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too.

  

  Lee Ryan Blue

• A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • Journey

• Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.

  

  Buzz Osborne
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Country
  • House

• In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • President
  • Place
  • Direction

• 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