J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Above all shadows rides the sun.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Mistake
  • Big
  • Over

• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Fun
  • Blessed
  • Faces

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence
  • Early

• I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Wear
  • Michael
  • Stuart

• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Tradition
  • Truthful

• I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • High
  • Think
  • Game

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Bored

• Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the fuck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Fear

• Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • Justice

• Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Sleep
  • Daily

• Science has adapted itself entirely to the wealthy classes and accordingly has set itself to heal those who can afford everything, and it prescribes the same methods for those who have nothing to spare.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Science

• Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.

  

  Brian Wilson

• 'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Time
  • Happy

• I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life
  • May
  • Experience

• It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Sun

• I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

  

  Geronimo
  • Feeling
  • Sun
  • Trees

• When you're guest-starring on another show, it really requires you to jump through hoops in a way, because you're servicing the stories of the main characters. You have to be able to portray a lot of different elements. You show up and get on board and get on their journey; you have to be flexible as to what they need for the role.

  

  Kim Dickens
  • Up
  • Different
  • Journey

• Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

  

  John Abizaid
  • Military

• Above all shadows rides the sun.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Sun
  • Shadows
  • Rides