J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
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  • Filmmaker

• The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
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• There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
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• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
  • Progress
  • Hypocrisy

• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • She
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• You have to open up on stage.

  

  Karen O
  • Up
  • You
  • Stage

• I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Work
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  • Sing

• I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Walk

• Tolerance is another word for indifference.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Tolerance
  • Indifference

• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Great
  • Light
  • Universe

• The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Hate

• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
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• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • True
  • Faith

• Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.

  

  Jan Koum
  • High
  • Simple
  • Powerful

• Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.

  

  Andrew Buchan
  • Remember
  • Eyes

• Michael: 'Hey, remember when I almost didn't let you into the house that first day you came?' Claire: 'Yep' Michael: 'Well, I was dead wrong. Maybe I never said that out loud before, but I mean it, Claire. All that's happened since... we wouldn't have made it. Not me, not Shane, not Eve. Not without you.' Claire: 'It's not me. It's not! It's us, that's all. We're just better together. We... take care of each other.' Shane: 'Stop vamping up my girl, man. She needs coffee.' Michael: 'Don't we all. Vamping up your girl? Dude. That's low.' Shane: 'Digging for China. Come on.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Remember

• Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Life
  • Long
  • Book

• I can talk to more persuadable voters in a week on 'The Five' than I could at CNN in a year, so it's worked out fine.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Remember
  • Traitor
  • Intend