J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Parents
  • Reason

• If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Partner
  • Expectations
  • Key

• I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with.

  

  Randall Park
  • People
  • Same
  • Follow

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Dangerous

• Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • New
  • Year

• Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Mother
  • House
  • Special

• When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Want
  • You
  • Numbers

• There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • More
  • Watching
  • Too Much

• People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • People
  • Up
  • Light

• I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Government
  • Market
  • Regulation

• I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Live
  • House
  • Me

• I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Myself

• No matter how much we enjoy following the lives of the rich and famous, we know the world is affected more deeply by quiet, even invisible acts of integrity, kindness, and generosity, than by fame and fortune.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • World
  • Enjoy
  • Famous

• I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

  

  Questlove
  • People

• We were hoping to initiate a conversation with them that would lead to an agreed-upon schedule.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Conversation
  • Schedule
  • Initiate

• I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Art
  • Think
  • Ideas

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Simple
  • The Right Thing

• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Pain
  • Feel
  • Numbing

• There is no ship now that can bear me hence.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Ship
  • Hence