J R R Tolkin Quotes

#1. I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

Michael Tolkin

#2. Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Michael Tolkin

#3. One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful writer, he earned a living. And it was a shock for me to find out that it was actually hard to make a living as a writer.

Michael Tolkin

#4. It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

Michael Tolkin

#5. On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Michael Tolkin

#6. Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.

Tony Dungy

#7. I wonder,' said Frodo. 'It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found. But will good or evil show it to me?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.

Yoshi Wada

#9. I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Michael Tolkin

#10. No one, she tought as the breath trembled through her lips, no one had ever looked at her as he did. In a way that told her she was the center

J.D. Robb

#11. What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.

Sean Lennon

#12. An 'eye for an eye' shall leave you all blind.
It's sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to see the beauty that tomorrow will bring.

Michelle Horst

#13. When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music.

Michael Gira

#14. I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.

Michael Tolkin

#15. Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Aristotle.