J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!

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• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Play
  • First

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Artist
  • More
  • Hip Hop

• I grew up with Bond.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Up
  • Grew
  • Bond

• Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Man
  • Year
  • Over

• When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Good
  • Think

• Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.

  

  Logic
  • Society
  • Logic

• Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Failure

• I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.

  

  Louis Theroux

• I think I have a period drama face. That's the reason I've always gone back to the West End, because for me, that's where all the interesting roles have been.

  

  Victoria Hamilton
  • Interesting
  • Drama
  • Period

• The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.

  

  David Ignatius
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Dreamer

• The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

  

  Martin Cruz Smith
  • Great

• I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Help

• I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Great
  • Why
  • Energy

• Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. It is automatic. It is thoughtless

  

  Eleanor Duckworth
  • Knowing
  • Risks
  • Virtues

• I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Boy
  • Professional

• In order to support a diplomatic, political solution that we very much hope will come alive in coming days at the meetings taking place.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Hope
  • Support
  • Diplomatic

• I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Meaning
  • Saying

• O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Knowing
  • June
  • Valley