Top 100 J.r. Quotes
#1. Rule number four for me as a writer? Plotlines are like sharks: They either keep moving or they die. ~J.R. Ward
J.R. Ward
#2. All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!
Lauren Graham
#3. All of my life people have thought of me as Bing Crosby's daughter. Now they'll remember me as the person who shot J.R.
Mary Crosby
#4. I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.
Ratan Tata
#5. '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
#6. I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
Carl Barks
#7. The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R. Ewing!
JR
#8. I would love to live in 'The Lord of the Rings.' J. R. R. Tolkien's world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures - not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo's quest.
Mary Pope Osborne
#9. Tolkienist (n.) Someone who studies the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Leslie Simon
#10. J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.
Philip Zaleski
#11. Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
Ernest Cline
#12. I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)
J.R.R. Tolkien
#13. Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.
Paul Di Filippo
#14. In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero. - The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 183
John C. Wright
#15. The record from the Vostok core shows that CO2 levels and temperatures have varied in tandem. Current CO2 levels are unprecedented in the last 420,000 years. Credit: J.R. Petit et al, Nature, vol. 399 (1999).
Elizabeth Kolbert
#16. Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien
Philip Zaleski
#17. J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.
Donald Ray Pollock
#18. As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.
Larry Hagman
#19. Straightening, I asked, "What do you believe in?"
"Old love songs, best friends, the collected works of J.R.R.Tolkien, crispy pork egg rolls with just the right amount of grease, the Big Boss and eternity."
"The Big Boss?"
Zachary pointed up, as if to heaven.
"Pious,"I teased.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
#20. Tolkien's words and sentences seemed like natural things, like rock formations or waterfalls, and wanting to write like Tolkien would have been, for me, like wanting to blossom like a cherry tree or climb a tree like a squirrel or rain like a thunderstorm. - Gaiman on J. R. R. Tolkien
Neil Gaiman
#21. Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous.
(J.R. on writing the BDB series)
J.R. Ward
#22. You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it ... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople. - J.R. Isidore
Philip K. Dick
#23. Not all those who wander are lost. - Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. Who? Who is that? (J.R.'s response when asked about opponent Jason Terry.)
J. R. Smith
#25. My Meema, her favorite show was 'Dallas.' She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she's looking down on me going, 'Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.'s son?'
Josh Henderson
#26. I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show.
Jerry Lawler
#27. Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.
Liz Williams
#28. The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is survives him. It can never be buried. -J. R. MILLER
John C. Maxwell
#29. I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkein and recently, Christine Feehan and J.K.Rowling. There are many as I'm an avid reader, but those three come to the fore.
Franny Armstrong
#30. Ratings experts say the best way to get people to watch during sweeps is to leave the audience with a question that won't be answered until the next time the show is on. You know, like Who shot J.R.? I like to think I do this every night - the question is, Is this show still on?
Craig Ferguson
#31. J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.
Philip Zaleski
#32. Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.
Steve Kanaly
#34. Look at the attention the Godfather's getting! Kick my leg, J.R.; kick me in the leg!
Jerry Lawler
#35. The 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb,
We're rollin' Rainier, and the jealous wanna get some.
Every time we do the sucka MC's wanna battle,
I'm the man they love to hate, the J.R. Ewing of Seattle ...
Sir Mix-a-Lot
#36. I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.
Graeme Base
#37. Our daughter's name Arwynn comes from Arwen in 'Lord of the Rings' because my wife and I met for the first time in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis used to go to read out their stories to one another.
Adrian McKinty
#38. Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Adrian McKinty
#39. I very deeply appreciate the honour which you have conferred upon me in awarding the Nobel Prize for 1923 to me and Professor J.J.R. Macleod.
Frederick Banting
#40. Before we shot the pilot, I knew what 'Dallas' was, but I actually was too young to remember the details of the show. I didn't have my hands on the DVDs, so I YouTubed everything I could of J.R.
Josh Henderson
#41. One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression ... by 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead. J.R.R. Tolkien
Nathan Hale
#42. There is nothing like raising a child in a home filled with love and respect ... to watch them blossom as an adult, filled with hopes and dreams and good intentions. Dedicated to our son, my coauthor, J.R. Matheson. We wish you all the best Justin! Love you.
Lee Bice-Matheson
#43. There's nobody playing better than J.R. Sweezy
Pete Carroll
#44. But her beauty was more than their beauty, and her sorrow deeper than their sorrows; and she knelt before Mandos and sang to him.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#45. Glorfindel smiled. 'I doubt very much,' he said, 'if your friends would be in danger if you were not with them! The pursuit would follow you and leave us in peace, I think. It is you, Frodo, and that which you bear that brings us all in peril.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#46. Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience?
V: I beg your pardon?
J.R. Ward
#47. I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear - like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. Ever. Running her hands up his powerful back, she held him just as hard. "But I am.
J.R. Ward
#48. Taking a couple of deep breaths, he knew he had to choose his words carefully - in spite of the fact that his adrenal gland had opened up full-bore and was pumping enough OMG into his system that he was drowning in terror.
J.R. Ward
#49. Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#50. How do you like your eggs?" she said. "Hard or soft?"
"Hard," he bit out. "Why am I not surprised.
J.R. Ward
#51. What r u wearing? Huh? Matt blinked at the phone, sure he'd read it wrong. Wasn't that how phone sex started? He wasn't dating anyone.
J.L. Langley
#52. There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance.
Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, "Booga-wooga!"
At least Eddie laughed. Adrian flipped Jim the bird and headed to the fridge for another beer.
J.R. Ward
#53. There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. Old fat spider spinning in a tree! Old fat spider can't see me! Attercop! Attercop! Won't
J.R.R. Tolkien
#55. I'm sorry," he said remotely. "For what just happened between you and me." She
J.R. Ward
#56. Brilliant pale green of her eyes, the buttercup yellow of her hair.
J.R. Ward
#57. With regard to threats against you. I would care to apprise you of a certain individual you would be wise to watch with care." Wrath cocked an eyebrow over the rim of his wraparound. "Do tell.
J.R. Ward
#58. Lassiter," Ad and Colin said together. At the sound of the name, even Devina rolled her eyes. "Oh, Christ. Him again.
J.R. Ward
#59. He was about an inch shorter than me, about half the width of me, and certainly not as good looking. Not everyone can be me. Who
J.R. Rain
#60. He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#61. Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. Readers & Writers Connect By Finding One Another
R.J. Harries
#63. Photographer shoots Sutton in close-up, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway behind his head. The expressway was built while Sutton was in prison. God what a monstrosity, Sutton says. I didn't think they could make Brooklyn uglier. I underestimated them.
J.R. Moehringer
#64. And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#65. There indeed lay Thorin Oakenshield, wounded with many wounds ...
J.R.R. Tolkien
#66. Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.
J.R. Ward
#68. If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I won't waste my breath trying to prove the fact that I'm your equal."
"I am the King, you realize."
"And I'm the daughter of a deity, motherfucker.
J.R. Ward
#69. we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks. When
R.J. Palacio
#70. PPPS. I hope Butterbur sends this promptly. A worthy man, but his memory is like a lumber-room: thing wanted always buried. If he forgets, I shall roast him.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. Fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle ... - Natalie Merchant,
R.J. Palacio
#73. Never met Ahhh, don't know him, don't care how big he is-if he's standing in our way? I'ma murder the son of a bitch" ~ Trez
'The Shadows' page 205
J.R. Ward
#74. I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
Ashthon Jones
#75. Fuck you. I am more than just a pair of ovaries you can put a ring on.
J.R. Ward
#76. When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf.
This made her rare. This made her precious.
This made him ... love her.
J.R. Ward
#77. Side? I am on nobody's side, because nobody is on my side, little orc.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#78. But the good thing about life, Julian," she continued, "is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better. One mistake does not define you.
R.J. Palacio
#80. Heaven is the place we call home.
J.R. Rim
#81. Sometimes words were less valuable than the air that carried them when it came to getting close.
J.R. Ward
#82. Yuk. Get a room," Nikki complained. "We did. You're in it!
R.J. Prescott
#83. You're very attractive," I said, certain I would have been blushing had I the blood to do so. "That is, for someone who is encased in flesh." Nice pink envelope you have there, I thought. She
J.R. Rain
#85. Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.
J.R. Rim
#86. I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#87. My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#88. He had many hardships and adventures before he got back. The Wild was still the Wild, and there were many other things in it in those days beside goblins; but he was well guided and well guarded - the wizard was with him, and Beorn for much of the way - and he was never in great danger again.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#89. Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#90. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. Maybe what you found is being used for another reason?" Z stopped. "Oh, yeah. Right. Because those things are multifunctional. Like Q-tips or some shit. Look, would you talk to her?
J.R. Ward
#92. Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. They lie in all the pools, pale faces, deep deep under the dark water. I saw them: grim faces and evil, and noble faces and sad. Many faces proud and fair, and weeds in their silver hair. But all foul, all rotting, all dead.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#94. And if I fucked you, it'd be forceful, wouldn't it?" "Well, that's what rape is, Borden. Forceful." He shrugged. "You can have consensual forceful fucking, right?
R.J. Lewis
#95. The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home.
J.R. Ward
#96. Shall we make a new rule of life ... Always try to be a little kinder than us necessary? ['The little white bird' by JM Barrie]
R.J. Palacio
#97. The ring! exclaimed Frodo. 'Has he left me that? I wonder why. Still, it may be useful.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#99. V tired to imagine giving up his proclivities. My monster needs to get out. Especially now.
J.R. Ward
#100. I'm not society's version of beautiful
But you're mine.
R.J. Seeley
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