J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Play

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Interesting
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Environment

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Hate
  • Care
  • Positive

• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Think
  • Game

• Democracy is not about one party dominating.

  

  Ed Townsend
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Dominating

• Everything that I design I would wear myself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Design
  • Everything

• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Technology

• It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Day
  • Baseball
  • Congress

• I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Wonder
  • Worry
  • Uncertainty

• When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Like
  • Trump
  • Silent

• People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Started

• My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Change

• I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.

  

  Mark Barrowcliffe
  • Up
  • American
  • Beginning

• The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • American
  • Fashion

• I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.

  

  Danielle de Niese

• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Given
  • Decide