J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• Interior design is a business of trust.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Design

• There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • High
  • Man
  • Society

• Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Art
  • You
  • Floor

• Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

  

  Om Puri
  • Never
  • Place
  • Fat

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • Without
  • Group
  • Fools

• It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • May
  • Envy

• We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Love
  • Why
  • Awards

• I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Great
  • Family
  • Job

• I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • House
  • Parents
  • Years

• But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Money
  • Decisions
  • How

• This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Famous
  • Segregation

• People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football – for me, at least.

  

  Xavi
  • Me
  • Play
  • Football

• I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Why
  • Happy

• Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Values
  • Meeting

• I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

  

  John Carney
  • Amazing
  • Star
  • Rain

• No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against 'no fault' insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Great
  • Success
  • Control

• I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Trying
  • Waiting
  • Missing

• She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • She
  • Want

• Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Star
  • Meeting
  • Shines