J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Families
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• Fresh Air

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
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• I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Never
  • Working
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• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

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• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

  

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• 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

  

  Jack Horner
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• Managers are the most creative people in the world.

  

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• I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Work
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• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
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• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
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• I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Child
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• Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.

  

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  • Time
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• I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
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• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Music
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Kind
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• I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Like
  • Cute
  • Boyfriend

• Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

  

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  • Life
  • Christian
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• Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.

  

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• Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

  

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• Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.

  

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  • Time
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• The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.

  

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  • Lying
  • Pleasure
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• Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.

  

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  • Want
  • You
  • Forever

• Taran. We go down fighting.

  

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• Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Pleasure
  • Generations
  • Families