J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!J. R. R. Tolkien
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
Salman Rushdie -
If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
Vin Diesel -
I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
Natalie Portman -
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht -
Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
Usher -
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
Sabrina Carpenter -
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card -
My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I got rhythm,I got music,I got my manWho could ask for anything more?
Ira Gershwin -
Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.
Narendra Modi -
In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.
Laura Bush
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We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.
W. H. Auden -
I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.
Maya Angelou -
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
James Baldwin -
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
Claudia Rankine -
In this business, I don't know how you can have a plan or how you can orchestrate anything. But I've been lucky with my choices. I'm very strong-willed, so I've been able to stick with it. I'm lucky there.
January Jones -
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Mark Twain
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Walter Lippmann -
You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.
Dermot Mulroney -
As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.
Ramakrishna -
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
Alan Sugar -
... greatest single programming language ever designed. (About the Lisp programming language.)
Alan Kay -
Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!
J. R. R. Tolkien