Bywater Quotes

#1. Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater every day in the year was somebody's birthday, so that every hobbit in those parts had a fair chance of at least one present at least once a week. But they never got tired of them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.

William Hazlitt

#3. Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.

Michael Bywater

#4. America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights ... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?

Michael Bywater

#5. Don't fall...enjoy your life affair!

Amina El Karamany

#6. Don't forget to be your wife's best friend as well as her husband. True friendship in marriage does away with all sorts of trouble.

Blanche Ebbutt

#7. If Seth didn't cut it out, I was going to throw a pinecone at him.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to,

Matthew Freud

#9. You create your future by what you do in the present

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#10. People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

Ayn Rand

#11. The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

Chris Gardner

#12. I might not know where you are or what you are doing right now, but if you hear my voice will you come to me?

Onew

#13. Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

Jared Diamond

#14. And I vowed that were it ever within my power, I would see to it that he had his voyage.

C.W. Gortner

#15. The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.

Brandy Norwood

#16. Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

Michael Bywater

#17. One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

Michael Bywater