J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • World
  • May
  • Book

• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Girl
  • Myself

• I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Feel

• I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Power
  • Guardian

• The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Enemy
  • Hands
  • Direction

• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Family
  • Stability
  • Promotion

• I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Finesse

• I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Change
  • Husband

• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Need
  • Involved
  • Charities

• The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Greatest

• 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've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  

  Ted Williams
  • You
  • Need
  • Hit

• I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Never
  • Brother

• Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • You
  • Advice

• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • War
  • Pretty
  • Pain

• The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.

  

  Elon Musk
  • World

• I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Book
  • Game
  • Amazing

• Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Real
  • House

• How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • War
  • Force
  • Poisonous

• Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

  

  Archibald Hill
  • World
  • Good
  • Understanding

• It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Amazing
  • Wine