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

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Stress

• 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.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Night
  • Man

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • Blessing
  • 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.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Past

• I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Why
  • May
  • Body

• We gave the world dab fever!

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Gave
  • Fever

• I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Will
  • Follow
  • Opening

• 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.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Me
  • Jazz
  • Ride

• Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Reading
  • 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power

• I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. … Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • Believe
  • Power

• Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World
  • Transformation

• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• I want England to understand - the rest of the world to understand - what is going on in America. And I want America to understand what is going on in the rest of the world.

  

  Usher
  • World
  • America
  • Want

• Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

  

  John McAfee
  • Up
  • Success
  • Morning

• 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

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wonder
  • Surprise
  • Ruin