J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenWriteBeginUpBeenMake

A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.

Andrew Bird

GoodWaterMeYouPlaceNew

Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

Andy Grammer

TemptationEveryoneJustDeals

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

Sting

WorkBestPainI AmBest WorkAm

I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.

Tony Bennett

KingHeroesYearsOlderThanThose

It drove me crazy, Scotland. It was cold. It was abuse. It was snowing and everything. I was so cold that one day I faked an injury to go to the locker room.

Riyad Mahrez

DayMeCrazyColdGoOne Day

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

Rod Lurie

ArtCriticismConvictionFilmI Came

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

Rose Macaulay

TimeBookBetterDeadWhoLike

I think it's important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks.

Michael McCaul

Social MediaThinkWolfMediaSocial

I think if you try a little bit too hard sometimes, you can kind of shoot yourself in the foot.

Jason Day

YourselfThinkYouSometimesKind

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Joseph Conrad

LoveLove IsImpossibleFeelingsOur

If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will take ages, during which time God only knows how much human damage will occur.

Douglas Coupland

GodTimeMoneyBridgeWillHuman

Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a 'Harry Potter' movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.

Chelan Simmons

TimeMoviesHorrorFirst TimeFirst

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