J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Living

• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

  T-Pain
  • Car
  • Made
  • Radio

• I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Artist

• I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • School
  • Age
  • Day

• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Culture

• People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• I want to be sublimely happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy

• People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • People
  • Dumb

• Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Way
  • Smart
  • Books

• Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • She
  • Bad

• Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Desire
  • Taken
  • Mood

• Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Lord

• Love between a man and woman is war.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Love
  • War
  • Man

• What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Way
  • Born
  • Adages

• A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Good
  • Mind

• When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Work
  • God
  • Prayer

• I think everyone is born funny. Sadly, some lives beat it out of them. I don't know what allows someone to keep being funny and actually make a career of it.

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • Thinking

• Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.

  

  Arthur Alfred Lynch
  • Society
  • Knowledge
  • Order

• An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Desire
  • Childhood
  • Belief

• Basically you’ve got to be yourself, and just three or four percent larger than life, that is it. That is my belief. That is if you have it, if you are successful. If you go a little over the top, then you are arrogant and pompous.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Successful

• Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fear
  • Common
  • Art Is

• Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Belief
  • Art Is
  • Human Process