Pippin Took Quotes

#1. Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick"
-Pippin Took

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat upon'.

Peter David

#3. I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.

Magnus Carlsen

#4. I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

Harriet Walter

#5. If you're fortunate to get a first album that sells 10 million you have nowhere to go but down. I'm just going to be honest and your measuring stick is so high that haters are licking their chops because you can't do nothing but fail.

Nelly

#6. Soulmate is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.

Hilary Duff

#7. Hearken to my story. Listen but do not pity me. For pity is intended for the weak and I am still strong in my affliction.

Kahlil Gibran

#8. My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.

Madonna Ciccone

#9. There was a lot more to that song,' said Sam, 'all about Mordor. I didn't learn that part, it gave me the shivers. I never thought I should be going that was myself!'
'Going to Mordor! Cried Pippin. 'I hope it won't come to that!'
'Do not speak that name so loudly!' said Strider

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.

Victoria Wood

#11. Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#12. We don't windsurf in Harlem.

Charles B. Rangel

#13. Because when you've had a good enough Teacher, you're all your own Leaders.

Lauren Groff

#14. The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

George W. S. Trow

#15. Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.

Walter J. Phillips

#16. We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.

Jack Lessenberry

#17. Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.

J.R.R. Tolkien