J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
Natascha McElhone
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Dag Hammarskjold
I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
Laura Lang
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
Rafael Nadal
'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
Hannibal Buress
I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
Kate Christensen
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford
I choose work with the people I like to work with.
Mads Mikkelsen
What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
Olga Kurylenko
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune.
Walter Raleigh
The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Department of Homeland Security raises the alert status for financial centers in New York, New Jersey, and Washington to orange. The evidence supporting the warning, reconnaissance data left in a home in Iraq, later proves to be roughly four years old and largely out of date. Number 10. Last Thursday, at 10 a.m. Eastern time, the President addresses the National Endowment for Democracy, once again emphasizing the importance of the war on terror, and insisting his government has broken up at least 10 terrorist plots since 9/11. At 3 p.m. Eastern time, five hours after the President's speech has begun, the Associated Press reports that Karl Rove will testify again to the CIA leak grand jury and that special prosecutor Fitzgerald has told Rove he cannot guarantee that he will not be indicted.
Keith Olbermann
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
Paul Auster
Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
S. E. Hinton
Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.
Gary Jarman
A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
J. R. R. Tolkien