Bookrags Hobbit Quotes & Sayings

Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring. — Mabel Osgood Wright

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'. — Strive Masiyiwa

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. — Seth Godin

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas. — Bernie Sanders

The war is always going badly. — Catherynne M Valente

I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years. — Bill Callahan

The charged atmosphere made every little thing stand out as a performance, a movement distinct and vastly important. It was one of those hypersensitive moments when all your automatic movements, however long established, however habitual, become separate acts of will. You are like a man learning to walk after polio. You take nothing for granted, absolutely nothing at all. — Raymond Chandler

What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, q a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes r speechless idols! — Anonymous

Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman. — Jessica Raine

11 All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theatre. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love, principally when it is represented as very chaste and virtuous. For the more innocent it appears to innocent souls, the more they are likely to be touched by it. — Blaise Pascal

When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted. — Anne Bronte

We're not exactly going to the wilderness, Shane. You don't have to take everything. There are vending machines. — Rachel Caine

I perfectly feele even at my fingers end. — John Heywood

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic. — Edward Abbey

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great. — Judd Apatow