Mounding Perennial Quotes

#1. He caught hold of Tom's leg - as well as he could, it was thick as a young tree-trunk - but he was sent spinning up into the top of some bushes, when Tom kicked the sparks up in Thorin's face.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

William Shatner

#3. A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.

Michael Steger

#4. I was racking up prescription slips like Boy Scout badges. What didn't I have?

Jason Diamond

#5. I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

John Tuzo Wilson

#6. Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#7. Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now ... it's like quitting before you start.

Jacqueline Susann

#8. I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#9. If it feels like cracks are forming in your life, those cracks may be what is needed for the light within to reveal itself.

Heidi DuPree

#10. I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.

Ian Astbury

#11. Give yourself a break from any holy book; and
start looking at others as you want to be looked at.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#12. Pure uncomplicated summertime.

Ben H. Winters

#13. I'm much more for style and not trend-driven.

Ian Astbury

#14. Now, there is no such thing as 'man' in this world. In my life I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, and so on. I even know, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare I've never encountered him.

Joseph De Maistre