J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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• You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Go
  • Ride

• In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Household
  • Arthur
  • Susan

• I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Me
  • Birth

• Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Respect
  • Boundaries
  • Global

• Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Different
  • Strength
  • Loss

• I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Years

• I like to jump into different worlds. I'm attracted to the emotional rollercoaster of acting. Now I've been doing it for so many years, I must rather enjoy it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Emotional
  • Enjoy

• You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Years

• The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Thought
  • Contribution

• My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Grandfather

• All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Economy

• I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Business
  • Hair

• Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-term side effects, and I just don't think that can be good for you.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Good
  • Long

• My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.

  

  Trey Songz
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

  

  Bill Walton
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friends

• I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• Shame on us if 100 or 200 years from now our grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living on a planet that has been irreparably damaged by global warming, and they ask, 'How could those who came before us, who saw this coming, have let this happen?' 2

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Great
  • Grandchildren

• Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

  

  Dario Fo

• In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Service
  • Refusal
  • Nonconformity

• Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.

  

  Archie Frederick Collins
  • Romance
  • Fred Astaire

• It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Practice

• O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Men
  • Women
  • Night

• That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Remembered
  • Wednesday
  • Awkward