J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

In such 'fantasy', as it is called, new form is made; Faerie begins; Man becomes a sub-creator.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • School
  • Home
  • Remember

• We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Learn
  • Rich
  • Cost

• Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Music
  • Alone

• I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Honest

• My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Career
  • Funny

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • World
  • Path
  • Face

• I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Couple

• No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Passion
  • Communication

• I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Me
  • Sexy

• The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Things
  • Said
  • Will

• My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Up
  • Want
  • Me

• I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Heart
  • Church
  • Heaven

• He saw a tree in a backyard, its branches tortured among electric wires and clotheslines, its leaves dry and shriveled before they were fully out. Low in the sky, dark clouds heralded the storm.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Dark
  • Tree
  • Sky

• so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • She

• I hate the PC, with a passion.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Hate
  • Passion

• I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Work
  • Done

• You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

  

  John Ortberg

• If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

  

  Alan Blinder
  • Hand
  • Answer
  • Quoted

• It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Bad

• The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Done
  • Health

• In such 'fantasy', as it is called, new form is made; Faerie begins; Man becomes a sub-creator.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien