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Book The Hobbit Quotes By Peter Jackson

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book. — Peter Jackson

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Gene Wolfe

I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them. — Gene Wolfe

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Kristen Ashley

Out there, King Lahn is a fierce warrior but in here, my Lahn ... kah Lahn is sweet. — Kristen Ashley

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Kristin Billerbeck

We have an agreement," she explained. "I watch nothing to do with a hobbit, Vulcan, or comic book hero, and in return, Dexter's not forced to sit through a foreign romance, a BBC production, or one my classic films. — Kristin Billerbeck

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Evangeline Lilly

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them. — Evangeline Lilly

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Andy Serkis

People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence. — Andy Serkis

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Saoirse Ronan

I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness. — Saoirse Ronan

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Tony Curl

At times, don't be forced to play nice with others, especially when their version of playing nice favours them, and is focused on them. Playing nice means working together for a shared result. I'm not sorry for not being able to play nice with everyone, sometimes I only play nice with the best. — Tony Curl

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Adriano Bulla

You don't need to have big hairy feet to read The Hobbit, why should you be gay to read a gay book? — Adriano Bulla

Book The Hobbit Quotes By William Scranton

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it. — William Scranton

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Harper Lee

I suppose I should include Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Alexandra's husband, but as he never spoke a word to me in my life except to say, "Get off the fence," once, I never saw any reason to take notice of him. Neither did Aunt Alexandra. Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunt and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry, who left home as soon as was humanly possible, married, and produced Francis. Henry and his wife deposited Francis at his grandparents' every Christmas, then pursued their own pleasures. — Harper Lee

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Conan Stevens

The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old. — Conan Stevens

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Mark Schatzker

Yes, part of the problem is junk food. There's more of it, and it's more alluring than ever. But nonjunk food is a bigger problem. It isn't as flavorful as it used to be, which has the inverse effect of making junk food yet more enticing. Even worse, we're turning real food into junk food.Thanks to its off-putting insipidness, we coat it in calories, drench it in dressing, and dust it in synthetic flavor. The more bland it becomes, the harder we try to make it seem real. — Mark Schatzker

Book The Hobbit Quotes By J.R.R. Tolkien

such as the fact that Strider was called Trotter until a very late stage in the writing of the book; that Trotter was at one time a hobbit, so named because he wore wooden shoes; that — J.R.R. Tolkien

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Evangeline Lilly

I got called and was told, "We'd like you to do The Hobbit", which was my favorite of all of them when I was a kid - "And we want you to play a character that's not in the books", I gulped and hesitated, but then I went, "These guys know this world, and they represent this world so well, that I actually think they've earned the right to have a little play." — Evangeline Lilly

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Melissa Febos

I saved letters from my boss. There are things in there that are directly transcribed. I was so glad I did that. Sometimes when I was writing the book I wondered if some little writer hobbit part of my brain was back there puppeteering that action. But it really never, on any conscious level, occurred to me that I would write about it. I will say, I thought probably some day there would be an ancillary character in some novel - not in the one I was currently writing - that would be a dominatrix or something. — Melissa Febos

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Michael Johnson

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work. — Michael Johnson

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Peter Jackson

It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does. — Peter Jackson

Book The Hobbit Quotes By George F. Will

He [Barry Goldwater] was called "the cheerful malcontent." It takes a rare and fine temperament to wed that adjective with that noun. His emotional equipoise was undisturbed by the loss of 44 states as a presidential nominee. Perhaps he sensed that he had won the future. We
27,178,188 of us
who voted for him in 1964 believe he won, it just took 16 years to count the votes. — George F. Will

Book The Hobbit Quotes By John Howe

All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire. — John Howe

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Luke Mitchell

My favorite group growing up was 'The Hobbit.' It was the first book I actually finished. One of those adventure things that takes you to that land and it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I am not a huge book reader. — Luke Mitchell

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Robert Browning

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. — Robert Browning

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Andy Serkis

In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation. — Andy Serkis

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Mark Twain

Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't. — Mark Twain

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Ian McKellen

The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted. — Ian McKellen

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Steve Bivans

I am a Hobbit, like I said at the beginning of the book. That doesn't mean that at times, many times, I wasn't a Dwarf, an Orc, even a bit Gollum-ish or Wraith-ish. But deep down, what I want to be is a Hobbit. Do you? — Steve Bivans

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Evangeline Lilly

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really. — Evangeline Lilly

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Nigel Lythgoe

'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again. — Nigel Lythgoe

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Evangeline Lilly

I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was ... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book. — Evangeline Lilly

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Christopher Tolkien

They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film. — Christopher Tolkien

Book The Hobbit Quotes By Aaron Levie

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Book The Hobbit Quotes By Dean Koontz

The normality of the house terrified her: the gleaming surfaces, the tidiness, the homey touches, the sense that a person lived here who might walk in daylight on any street and pass for human in spite of the atrocities that he had committed. — Dean Koontz