Book The Hobbit Quotes

#1. 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

#2. There is no crueler hells than committee work,

Robert Jackson Bennett

#3. The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

Herodotus

#4. 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

#5. Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves.

Will Schwalbe

#6. It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.

Rafael Yglesias

#7. Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

Chanakya

#8. We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

John Pistole

#9. 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

#10. Did you ever try to sleep sober?

Doug Stanhope

#11. The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

Imran Khan

#12. 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

#13. On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

#14. Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

Bill Parcells

#15. Far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#16. 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

#17. What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Jaron Lanier

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Evangeline Lilly

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. I promise to love and cherish each of my sweet-faced
fans forever

Michael Jackson

#29. 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

#30. '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

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Lisa Gansky

#32. 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