Jrr Quotes & Sayings

Not all that have fallen are vanquished. — J.R.R. Tolkien

As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that risk, they shouldn't have the taxpayer pay for the losses. — Henry Paulson

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
[Kung Fu Monkey
Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009] — John Rogers

I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool. — Jonathan Meiburg

What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and varied applications, by extending it and deploying it. It is not words that they contribute: what they do is enrich their words, deepen their meanings and tie down their usage; they teach it unaccustomed rhythms, prudently though and with ingenuity. — Michel De Montaigne

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love. — Jamaica Kincaid

Tell me something, Raphael?"
He was already turning, heading to the door. "What is it you'd like to know, Guild Hunter?"
She hid her smile at his slip. "What do I call you? Husband? Mate? Boyfriend?"
Stopping with his hand on the doorknob, he shot her an inscrutable look. "You can call me 'Master'. — Nalini Singh

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy. — J.D. Salinger

Not all those who wander are lost — JRR Tollien

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list. — Tori Spelling

It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know? — Jenna Brooks

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist. — Ramana Maharshi

You asked for brief sketch of my stuff that is connected with my imaginary world. It is difficult to say anything without saying too much: the attempt to say a few words opens a floodgate of excitement, the egoist and the artist at once desires to say how the stuff has grown, what it is like, and what he thinks he means or is trying to represent by it all."

-JRR Tolkien, 1951 — J. Carson Rose

I am rather tired, and no longer young enough to pillage the night to make up for the deficit of hours in the day ... JRR Tolkien, Letter # 174 — J.R.R. Tolkien

We don't want any adventures here, thank you! ... Make you late for dinner!" Bilbo Baggins "The Hobbit — JRR Tollien

Vampires and humans; we are all monsters in our own way at the end of a dream, or a nightmare. — Cameron Jace

Is everything sad going to come untrue? — J.R.R. Tolkien

Not all those who wonder are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A blessing shared is a blessing doubled. — Matshona Dhliwayo

There were two books I remember changing my life as a introverted, bookish 14 year old. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien. One was set in a fantastic world, populated by outlandish characters,tired prose, foul monsters, evil incarnate and a message about losing one's humanity. The other book was about hobbits. — Christopher Odell Homsley

To have my life accepted as just another ordinary life, to have it viewed as common and regular, was a singular moment. — Katherine A. Briccetti

It's crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as well be talking about JRR Tolkien or Star Trek or something. — Brad Warner

Heaven is not a republic. — E.A. Bucchianeri

In those days of our tale, there were still some people who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors and Elrond, the master of the house, was their chief. He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves and as kind as summer. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The Christian faith stands or falls with the truth of the testimony that Christ is risen from the dead. If this were taken away, it would still be possible to piece together from the Christian tradition a series of interesting ideas about God and men, about man's being and his obligations, a kind of religious world view: but the Christian faith itself would be dead. Jesus would be a failed religious leader, who despite his failure remains great and can cause us to reflect. But he would then remain purely human, and his authority would extend only so far as his message is of interest to us. He would no longer be a criterion; the only criterion left would be our own judgment in selecting from his heritage what strikes us as helpful. In other words, we would be alone. Our own judgment would be the highest instance. Only — Pope Benedict XVI

I don't think I know your name.'
'Yes, yes my dear sir and I do know your name Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don't remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me. — J.R.R. Tolkien