J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Now

• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community

• If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Patience
  • Grow
  • Beard

• But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Beginning
  • Everything

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Succeed

• Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Never
  • Child

• Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • See
  • Loving

• At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Morning

• As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Women
  • Body

• Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • You
  • Diversity
  • Unity

• I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Work
  • Know
  • Taken

• I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Food
  • Corporations
  • Genetics

• I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Alone
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• Sometimes, things need to be so understated on film that I don't even see them as funny, which isn't my favorite style, comedically. When I watch film comedy, I like people that are a little bit more alive on the screen and wound up. I like volatility and unpredictability and other long words like those.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Humanity
  • Greatness
  • Mysterious

• Nothing surprises me about the Lords.

  

  Christopher Monckton

• I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm known for and dilute it.

  

  Billy Eichner

• I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Friends
  • Light
  • Store

• It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Business
  • Danger
  • Going Out