Elijah Wood Quotes

That's all right. You can call me Frodo. Go on, Dave, it's okay.

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• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Down

• As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Want
  • Person
  • Polite

• I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Important
  • Children
  • Why

• My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Research

• I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Think
  • I Think

• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • World
  • Important
  • Women

• The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Real
  • Go
  • Fast

• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Thinking
  • Growth
  • Environmental

• I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Fight
  • Just
  • Take

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Man
  • Understand
  • Least

• I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.

  

  Gerald Horne
  • Community
  • Africa
  • Allies

• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Tradition
  • Advance
  • Seeds

• What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Work
  • Right

• If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Love
  • Moments
  • Right

• That's all right. You can call me Frodo. Go on, Dave, it's okay.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Right
  • Frodo