J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Third time pays for all.

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• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Friends

• So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Rock
  • Piano
  • Rock And Roll

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Yourself
  • Individual

• I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Questions

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Trash

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Long
  • Today
  • Man

• My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Try

• If you can accept losing, you can't win.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • You
  • Win
  • Losing

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• In the Premier League, you never know who is going to win or who will be champions. It is always a surprise.

  

  Neymar

• When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Kids

• Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • People
  • Character
  • American

• God has one destined end for mankind - holiness! His one aim is the production of saints. God is not an eternal blessing-machine for men. He did not come to save men out of pity. He came to save men because He had created them to be holy.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Men
  • Aim

• I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Time
  • Why

• Third time pays for all.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Time
  • Pays