J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

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• No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Government
  • Enough

• I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Vote
  • Saying
  • Responsible

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Civilization
  • Precious

• I have always taken care of my body; I'm not a drinker, I've never smoked. And I've always exercised. That's all you have to do.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Care

• The first space walk, it's really got your attention. You know you're travelling eight times faster than a rifle bullet, and you're outside. Second space walk, you're a lot more relaxed, you're looking over your shoulder, admiring the view of Earth. What was funny about the third space walk was that mission control in Houston called and said, "Take a moment and enjoy the view".

  

  Dafydd Williams
  • Earth
  • Attention
  • Moments

• Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Tea
  • Effects
  • Temper

• It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Hard
  • Natural
  • Big

• Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

  

  William Congreve
  • Support
  • Language
  • Cold

• I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record "Peace Trail".

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Guy

• We've been writing a little, but the hardest thing about writing on the road is it's difficult to get deep and flush out an idea you always have to go do something.

  

  Jim Adkins Jimmy Eat World
  • Writing
  • Road
  • Idea

• I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happiness
  • Enjoyed
  • Selfishness

• There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.

  

  Nicolas Steno
  • Brain
  • Created
  • Mysteries

• In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.

  

  Alison Stewart
  • Presidential
  • Campaign
  • Outcome

• It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Internet
  • Opponents
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Form

• Mine has been a pretty strange path.

  

  Steve Carr
  • Path
  • Strange
  • Mine

• It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Precious
  • Mine