J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

He was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Good sports facilities are a blessing.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Good
  • Work
  • Memorial

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
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• The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
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• The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
  • Horse
  • Lady

• If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Party
  • Government
  • Feel

• I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Miss

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hell

• The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • Innovation
  • Living

• Money for me today does not really matter.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Today
  • Me

• I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Happy
  • Just

• People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Death
  • Fear

• My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Choices
  • Judge

• I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Fear

• The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Place
  • Soldiers
  • Depend

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Want
  • Best

• I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Sports
  • Person
  • Thought

• May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • True
  • Proud
  • Dignified

• He was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Audience
  • Interest
  • Conclusion