J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell -
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
Irwin Shaw -
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 -
When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
Randi Weingarten -
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
Paracelsus -
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan Quayle
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
Iman -
I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.
Dan Gilbert -
You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.
Naomie Harris -
The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
Dambisa Moyo -
I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
Lance Gross -
Once it's out there in the universe, it's serving its purpose, and I'm proud to have other folks hear the music that I was a part of making.
Sam Hunt
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
Nancy Kress -
People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.
Nate Diaz -
Since I was 21, I have not been able to sleep past 9 A.M.; I just want to get up and do something.
Jack Lowden -
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
Irwin Redlener -
One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!
Quentin Bryce -
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?
Ted Dekker
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We are sending the help wherever the U.S. authorities request us to.
Carlos Gonzalez -
Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
Hu Shih -
When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.
Eugene Levy -
I wisely started with a map.
J. R. R. Tolkien