J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?
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If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
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I never weigh myself. That's the best advice I can give - never step on a scale. You know if you're being healthy, if you're exercising. You don't need to be undermined by some crazy number.
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Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.
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I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.
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I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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I figure it's a European thing to eat cheese and crackers before a meal - that's my afternoon snack, or I do it before dinner.
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We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.
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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
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It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.
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The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
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I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
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One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.
