J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.J. R. R. Tolkien
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
Vik Muniz -
Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
Gary Bauer -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Edmund Burke -
The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
Walter Cronkite -
I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
Zac Goldsmith
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
Hailey Bieber -
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma -
My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
Becky G -
Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
Idris Elba -
The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Oliver Tambo -
I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
Malcolm McDowell
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
Garth Brooks -
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
Victor Hugo -
There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
Isaac Goldberg -
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
Samantha Morton -
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
Irving Layton -
When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
Tahmoh Penikett
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I like musicals and I love music.
Wayne Rooney -
Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
Abbey Clancy -
It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
Caitlyn Jenner -
My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.
J. R. R. Tolkien