Rl Tolkien Quotes & Sayings

It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me. — Shaquille O'Neal

My favorite words in the world are these:
"what" and "if" in conjunction.
They question curiosities
in simple form and function.
"What" is a query of broadest scope.
"If" is wonder that fuels all hope.
Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions! — Richelle E. Goodrich

I offer you my soul
Within are my flaws
My grace, my kindness
My love for you
The Offer — Shay Leigh

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do. — George Shearing

VIII
O when so much has been and gone
behind you - grief, to say the least
expect no help from anyone.
Board a train, get to the coast.
It's wider and it's deeper. This
superiority's not a thing
of joy especially. Mind you, if
one has to feel as orphans do,
better in places where the view
stirs somehow and cannot sting. — Joseph Brodsky

Whatever the reason for wanting to escape, sane or insane, zoo detractors should realize that animals don't escape to somewhere but from something. — Yann Martel

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice! — Earl Nightingale

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal. — Wayne Rogers

There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy. — Michka Assayas

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism. — Barry Goldwater

Are you saying that being a criminal is a matter of opinion?" I asked.
Qwerty smiled, but it was sad around the edges. "No," he said. "It's a matter of handcuffs. — Lemony Snicket

Madame Versoix had been interrupted in the middle of preparing dinner. She wore an apron and held a wooden spoon in one hand. She was younger than her husband, chubby and handsome and warm-eyed. Instinctively Bond guessed that they had no children and that they gave their thwarted affection to their friends and some regular customers, and probably to some pets. — Ian Fleming

Jacob was right when, after Sam's injury, he said it was too much love for happiness. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Hardships are arbitrary, Locke. You never know which particular quality in yourself or a fellow is going to get you past them. — Scott Lynch

Hedge yelled a question that might have been: Where's Frank? Percy pointed at the giant koi. Frank waved his left dorsal fin. 'Sup? — Rick Riordan