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 -
It was always my dream to write for a living.
Karin Slaughter -
I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
T-Pain -
I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
Nadia Comaneci -
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 -
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
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I want to be sublimely happy.
Frances Bean Cobain -
People are just dumb. They misunderstand.
Garry Winogrand -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
e. e. cummings -
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 -
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.
David Jeremiah -
God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
Bill Vaughan -
Thus does good fortune follow on the steps of the reckless.
Elizabeth von Arnim