J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

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• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• When it gets down to it you just have to act.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • You
  • Down
  • Act

• I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Know
  • Gay

• At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Light
  • End
  • Questions

• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • God
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Strong
  • Crazy

• The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Real
  • Beauty
  • Italian

• I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • People
  • Happy
  • Doing

• Venturing further than the length of your sightOut past the reach of your beginningsThere is a gamble in each proud act of flightBut the losses pale before the winningsCircling and diving with this freedom you’ve foundIllusion blows apart and scattersThere is no darkness in this place that we're boundLove is the only thing that matters

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Past
  • Freedom
  • Proud

• Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument.6

  

  Ze Frank
  • Real
  • War
  • Culture

• I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

  

  Nancy Pelosi

• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• Copernicus never discusses matters of religion or faith, nor does he use argument that depend in any way upon the authority of sacred writings which he might have interpreted erroneously. ... He did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Faith
  • Bible
  • Ignore

• Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

  

  Scott Joplin
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Indication

• Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Good
  • Important
  • Family

• I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

  

  Richard Marx
  • Music

• This team is resilient. We don't quit. Now we're starting to come into our own.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Team
  • Baseball
  • Resilient

• I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hope
  • Honest
  • Bulgar