J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973

Topics

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The Chip also reduces the damage done by bandits. They still steal drinks and cheers along the course, but no longer scramble the paying runners' results. No entry fee, no Chip, no time or place.

Joe Henderson

TimeResultsPlaceDoneCheers

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

Robert Johnson

HistoryAlwaysIndividualPendulum

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

John Lautner

ArtArchitectureMeAliveDead

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

John Lydon

LoveMomentChildhoodYouAliveOut

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

FaithKnowledgeBeliefWithoutWho

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

Robert Anton Wilson

BecauseIdealAnarchismAnarchist

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

Dolly Parton

LoveHomeWorldTrueNothingOver

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

Dierks Bentley

LoveTogetherStandNeverHardReal

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

Dennis Quaid

LoveYou Can Do ItDieDoingYou

I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'

Doug Henning

GirlGreatPeopleThinkHandsThree

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Dean Acheson

CooperationUnited NationsUnited

We can't take our ball and go home when the consequences mean a weaker America.

Phil Gingrey

HomeAmericaConsequencesGoMean

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