J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.

  

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• The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

  

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• We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.

  

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• When you're trying out on Broadway, it's very hectic, and you're making changes night after night. There's a lot of pressures from producers to make some changes, and you're writing for actors who are in it - and sometimes the limitations of actors who are in it.

  

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• What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

  

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• I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

  

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• I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
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• I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…

  

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• Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

  

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• There are two things that are hard to hit and see. That's a spooky ghost and Muhammad Ali.

  

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• The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.

  

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• Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.

  

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• Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

  

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• He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

  

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• I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

  

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• Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.

  

  George Gascoigne
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• What’s got into me? Do I want children? Do I want to be a mamma, nursing and singing lullabies? Marriage plus pregnancy? And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?

  

  Elena Ferrante
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• Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Drunken
  • Goblin
  • Lullabies