J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
-
I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
-
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
-
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
-
Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
-
The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
-
It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
-
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
-
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
-
Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
-
The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
-
8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
-
Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
-
I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
-
Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
-
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
-
We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change.
-
Anger's not a good emotion.
-
In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It was because I'd seen an old photo of Tom Waits - with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets - and fallen in love with it.
-
Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
-
Now, that we do not really know of what sort each thing is, or is not, has often been shown.
-
Leaving your hair down to sleep causes friction on your ends between your body heat and the pillow case. Securing the ends away from your body helps preserve your ends.
-
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
-
Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind.
