J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Normal

• Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Free
  • Never
  • Cuba

• We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Woman

• There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Roles

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hell
  • He
  • Inquisitive

• Kate Moss has great style.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Great
  • Style
  • Moss

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Political
  • Change

• My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Country
  • May
  • Marriage

• Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Singing

• The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Work
  • Always
  • Hard Work

• In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Important
  • You
  • Interior

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.

  

  Andrew Cherng
  • People
  • Real
  • Food

• A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Body

• God bless nannies.

  

  Laura Dern
  • God
  • Bless
  • God Bless

• I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • World
  • Hell
  • Lord

• Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine.

  

  Hamid Drake
  • Society
  • Man
  • Woman

• But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Woman
  • Daughter
  • Lord