J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
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• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  

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• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

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• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  

  Taiye Selasi
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• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Long
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• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
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• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
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• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
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• I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
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• I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Me
  • Myself

• But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
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• People always give me styling products and stuff.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • Always
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• I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • Boy
  • Story

• I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Life
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• The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Deep
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• I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• When plants are growing, they sense how big a root system they have to produce to draw from the soil the nutrients and moisture they need to grow and reach maturity and reproduce. On a conventional farm where there are high levels of fertilizer nutrients in the soil, along with lots of water, there is little incentive for roots to penetrate far.

  

  Charles Benbrook
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  • Plants
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• Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Trouble
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• I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.

  

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• When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

  

  Joe Mantegna
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  • Fun
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• It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.

  

  Margarita Simonyan
  • Time
  • High

• Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Mistaken