J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
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We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.
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My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.
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It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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Slime is the sticky essence of a gastropod’s soul, the medium for everything in its life: locomotion, defense, healing, courting, mating, and egg protection. Nearly one-third of my snail’s daily energy went into slime production. And rather than making a single batch of “all-purpose” slime, my snail had a species-specific recipe for each of these needs and for different parts of its body. It could adjust the ingredients, just as a good cook would, to meet a particular occasion. And in a catastrophic accident in which a snail is squashed, it can release a flood of lifesaving, medicinal mucus packed with antioxidants and regenerative properties.
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If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.
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Never laugh at live dragons.