J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.J. R. R. Tolkien
Quotes to Explore
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
Hans Hofmann -
There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
Vicki Lawrence -
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
Fiona Apple -
I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
Forest Whitaker -
Religion is induced insanity.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
Irvine Welsh
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
Ford Frick -
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn -
I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
Camille Pissarro -
Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson -
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
Eddie Trunk -
People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
Laura Fraser -
Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
Quintilian -
A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)
Neil Peart Rush -
Clarice: getting cold feet There's still time!Toni: We can just call everyone and say we're terribly sorry but something came up and we have to leave town!Clarice: ...But what about the five gallons of baba ganoush, and all those tofu pups?Toni: Shit. I forgot. Well, I guess we'll just have to go through with it, then.
Alison Bechdel
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If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.
Adrian Rogers -
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
Mallory Ortberg -
I don't like to direct myself.
Vic Morrow -
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
Peter Drucker -
Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
J. R. R. Tolkien