J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time ... human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Law
  • Fashion
  • Influence

• I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Political
  • Respect

• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Fun
  • Like

• I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Go

• Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Think
  • Political
  • Problems

• I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Struggle
  • Tongue
  • Impatient

• What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Day

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fashion
  • Beauty
  • New York

• My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Car
  • Favorite

• It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.

  

  Adam Brown
  • Room
  • Odd
  • Sharing

• You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• To be honest about it, sex was not worth the wait.

  

  Kevin Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Sex
  • Honest
  • Wait

• I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

  

  Gloria Jones T. Rex
  • State
  • Sadness

• It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • Parents
  • City

• Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
  • God

• If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time ... human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • People
  • Time
  • Death