Quotes About Mathom

#1. His sword, Sting, Bilbo hung over his fireplace, and his coat of marvellous mail, the gift of the Dwarves from the Dragon-hoard, he lent to a museum, to the Michel Delving Mathom-house in fact.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. I hope I remember everything," said Toni.
"You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

Louis Sachar

#5. The only thing worse than a bigot is an "ally" who can't stop congratulating themselves on their enlightenment.

Julio Alexi Genao

#6. And he uncovered in us a curious need: that we each secretly wanted him to remember us the most. It was strange, both vital and flawed, until I realised that maybe the need to be remembered is stronger than the need to remember.

Sarah Winman

#7. My whole life, you have made decisions for me."
"Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years.

Sarah MacLean

#8. You have to let go to better embrace the best.

Debasish Mridha

#9. At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

Laurent Fabius

#10. I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

Stephen Mangan

#11. Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'

Shane Smith

#12. A labyrinth of symbols ... An invisible labyrinth of time.

Jorge Luis Borges

#13. My "Kentucky NCAA Champions" shirt was by now so bloodstained, you would think I had worn it to a North Carolina game. Also, I had feathers sticking to my hair.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Pete Sampras

#15. The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

Cesare Pavese

#16. I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

Bob Hope

#17. There is no going back, so fuck you, universe.

Hannah Moskowitz