J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!
Quotes to Explore
-
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
-
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
-
I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
-
It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
-
Don't take 'no' for an answer.
-
It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
-
Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
-
I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
-
I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
-
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.
-
Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
-
Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
-
My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
-
I buy clothes that have repeat value.
-
The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
-
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
-
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
-
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
-
I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.
-
There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.
-
I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
-
Words are women, deeds are men.
-
The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
-
Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!
