J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.J. R. R. Tolkien
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson -
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown -
I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
Wale -
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust -
Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
Barton Seaver
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
Zadie Smith -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton -
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
Imtiaz Ali -
All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
Osman Baydemir -
I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
Nancy Farmer -
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
Laura Linney -
I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.
G. Willow Wilson -
I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
Zendaya -
We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
Yanis Varoufakis -
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
Ira Glass
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I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
John Frusciante -
Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!
Jerry Coleman -
TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
Dan Harmon -
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.
Henry David Thoreau -
In Denmark lots of people come up to me for autographs.
Caroline Wozniacki -
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
J. R. R. Tolkien