J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took
Quotes to Explore
-
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
-
Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
-
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
-
Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
-
It was a labor of love and they did really well.
-
I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
-
I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
-
In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
-
I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
-
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
-
We gave the world dab fever!
-
I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
-
If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
-
I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
-
I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
-
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
-
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
-
You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
-
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
-
She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.
-
Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it.
-
I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.
-
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.
-
Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took
