J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Express

• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Liberty

• Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Three

• I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • High
  • Opinion
  • Need

• Enthusiasm is something so positive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Positive
  • Enthusiasm

• You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • World
  • Age
  • Enlightenment

• Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Happiness

• When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Different
  • Play

• I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Revenge

• What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment.

  

  Bankei Yōtaku

• It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Believe
  • Law
  • Appreciate

• I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • World
  • Live
  • Free

• I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Up
  • Good
  • Character

• The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

  

  Questlove

• I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Politics
  • Cafes
  • Internet Access

• Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.

  

  Billy Joel
  • California
  • Impression
  • Wild West

• Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Wings
  • Captain

• Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Nothing
  • Some
  • Symbols

• The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Success

• Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wings
  • Birds
  • Breeze