J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.

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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A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco.

Jeremy London

LifePeopleSickMy LifeGoingGet

I like it when a man puts thought into the kind of restaurant we're going to. That doesn't mean it needs to be fancy - some of the best meals of my life have been having a taco on a street corner.

Meghan Markle

LifeBestManThoughtRestaurant

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

Trent Reznor

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More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation.

Tom Vilsack

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Joseph Addison

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I think my parents are the first influence on me music-wise. My dad was into Motown and soul, and my mom was into British '80s pop, like The Trashcan Sinatras. I grew up on that. It was great. They were the first people to really bring music into my life.

Clairo

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On TV the people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.

Bob Uecker

PeopleYouCreateSeeRadioGot

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

Alma Guillermoprieto

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We protect monopolies with copyright.

Peter Thiel

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I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do. It's just lazy journalism, but people start to accept it. If people spent an hour in my car driving around London and listening to the stuff I listen to, they'd hear some interesting stuff.

Paul Weller

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Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II - Japan, Germany and Italy.

Richard Cohen

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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Remy de Gourmont

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