J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.J. R. R. Tolkien
Quotes to Explore
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
S. Jay Olshansky -
My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
Maggie Smith -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
Actor's life is very long.
Jackie Chan -
Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
Samuel E. Morison
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
Carl Honore -
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
Adam Mansbach -
I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
T. J. Miller -
I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
J. J. Abrams -
As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
Carla Gugino
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
Katey Sagal -
I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
Sam Altman -
I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
Salma Hayek -
I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.
Felicity Jones -
I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
Gary Ackerman -
I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
Yaya Han -
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
Van Wyck Brooks -
You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast.
Will Self -
We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water.
J. R. R. Tolkien