J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!J. R. R. Tolkien
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
Gayle Forman -
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
Dan Quayle -
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
Lady Gaga -
I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
A. R. Rahman -
I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
Patricia Cornwell
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie -
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
A. R. Rahman -
The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
Sam Harris -
I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi -
There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Laura Benanti -
Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
Zahi Hawass
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
Rafael dos Anjos -
The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Bitcoin will make a dent in society when more normal transactions occur that would have occurred with dollars or credit card.
Garry Tan -
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney -
I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
Abigail Adams -
-vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Emma Alice Margaret Asquith -
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid -
I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.
Sandra Bullock -
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino -
One of the major complaints for long-running shows is that they become mundane.
Cobie Smulders -
The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!
J. R. R. Tolkien