Quotes About Appendices

#1. In the following Appendices, especially A to D, see the note at the end of the Prologue. The section A III, Durin's Folk, was probably derived from Gimli the Dwarf, who maintained his friendship

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. I regard the tale of Arwen and Aragorn as the most important of the Appendices [in Lord of The Rings]; it is part of the essential story, and is only placed so, because it could not be worked into the main narrative without destroying its structure ...
[From letter 181]

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. ( ... ) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia !

Charles Shaar Murray

#4. Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

David Rabe

#5. I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.

Alex Ferguson

#6. If we can observe and understand how our thoughts are impacting us, we can change who we're being and how we're experiencing the world.

Lori Deschene

#7. To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.

W.C. Sellar

#8. I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.

Rod McKuen

#9. I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book.

Donald Ray Pollock

#10. When you pump up your exercise, it makes you feel better and makes you look better, so you do a better job. It's mental, too.

Behati Prinsloo

#11. War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young

Wilbur Smith

#12. If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them ... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

Keith Rabois

#13. If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#14. Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

Julie Gregory

#15. For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die,

Alex Salmond

#16. If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

Jack Kevorkian

#17. When we take into consideration the needs of both ourselves and others, we communicate honestly, compassionately and effectively.

Aletheia Luna

#18. I'm fifty-seven. Too old for starting over, too young for giving up.

Sara Baume