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.

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

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • 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
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • City

• I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Hipster
  • Neither
  • Nor

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

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Tired

• 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
  • Women
  • Change
  • Better

• 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
  • See

• 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
  • Pretty
  • Style

• 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
  • Actor
  • 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
  • You
  • Need

• I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Look
  • Three
  • Jerusalem

• 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

• I was 15 on the show, and I cried a lot. I was homesick, and was so worried, that I didn't think of being on 'American Idol.' I was so worried that I was going home every week that I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Home
  • American

• When I was an undergrad at Stanford, there was a girl named Jennie Kim who worked for the school newspaper. Sometimes people would come up to me and talk to me about articles she had written. 'That one on getting a Brazilian was hilarious', some guy said, high-fiving me.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Agreed
  • Fable

• I remember, from aged six to nine, I was loud and abrasive and loved making noise and loved playing instruments and doing all those things. When I was about ten, I realised I could get attention by doing that, so when I was eleven, I started writing songs.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Attention

• The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • Music
  • Popular

• 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