Numenorean Quotes

#1. Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely
to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Run through those time measurements again," Aahz grumbled.
"In seconds, minutes, hours ... "
"Minutes! We've got a few minutes.

Robert Asprin

#3. I saw, I wrote, and the world changed a little.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Wyndham Lewis

#5. It occurs to me that as different as we are in our behavior and decisions, our most basic, knee-jerk emotional reactions to really big things are often remarkably similar. And it is in these moments that I am most grateful for my sister.

Emily Giffin

#6. You say some Greek philosophers could dazzle their audiences
with their riddles? That does not interest me at all. Bring
more wine instead and play your lute; your changes in tones
remind me of the wind that rushes past and disappears,
just like us.

Omar Khayyam

#7. In fact, there's an entire universe out there that's pretty much indifferent to struggles that big, no matter how serious they've been in your life.

Sarah Polley

#8. Fear is faith that it won't work.

Mary Kay Ash

#9. Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.

Coleman Barks