J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!J. R. R. Tolkien
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Octavio Paz -
There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
Frances O'Grady -
Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
Sally Mann -
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters -
I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
Tamsin Greig -
This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
Kandyse McClure
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
Flume -
Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
Zendaya -
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. Applegate -
I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
Abbie Cornish -
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
Lactantius -
I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
Tatiana Maslany
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
Said Nursi -
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
Captain Beefheart -
I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
Zach Woodlee -
I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
Lara Stone -
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
Walter Dean Myers -
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
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It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated
Ray Bradbury -
One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
Samantha Harvey -
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck -
We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
J. R. R. Tolkien