J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

  

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• I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

  

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• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

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• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

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• I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

  

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• I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

  

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• We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

  

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• Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

  

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• 'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

  

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• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  

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• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

  

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• I don't have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes.

  

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• It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

  

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• The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

  

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• I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

  

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• Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Energy
  • Literature
  • Life is