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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• 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
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  • Memorial

• 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
  • Women
  • Interesting

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

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Want
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• 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
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  • 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

• 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
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• 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

• Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Music
  • Coming

• I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Long
  • Dark

• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Knowledge
  • Focus
  • Guitar

• Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • Physics
  • Economists

• Ultimately, a more experienced director realizes that you've got to stop sometime and just move on. They're braver about that.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Moving
  • Realizing
  • Directors

• Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Way
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  • Ideas

• I love every aspect of live performance and putting our shows together and approaching it from the standpoint of, 'What would we want to see if we were a fan sitting in the audience?'

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Audience
  • I Love
  • Performance

• People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a job or may not try to find one as quickly as they would without the benefit.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Job
  • Benefit
  • Workers

• 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