Quotes About The Silmarillion

#1. With their whips of flames they smote asunder the webs of Ungoliant. - The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Arranging to be emotionally tortured for four years by basketball loving escapees from the Silmarillion.

Tanya Huff

#3. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Then he called him Maeglin, which is Sharp Glance, for he perceived that the eyes of his son were more piercing than his own, and his thought could read the secrets of hearts beyond the mist of words.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Jodi Picoult

#6. Faith is a personal quest; not word of mouth.

Joan Ambu

#7. This only was wanting. Now comes the night.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

Graham Chapman

#9. My pre-med studies in anatomy and physiology at Oxford had not prepared me in the least for real medicine.

Oliver Sacks

#10. These are the days that require discipline, when exercise is pure duty and the good feeling only comes later, consisting solely of self-congratulations for having done the job at all.

Sue Grafton

#11. We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Madeleine L'Engle

#12. People will say you can't do good and do well. They're wrong, that's idiotic advice.

Soledad O'Brien

#13. I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Madeleine Albright

#14. A man lived or died according to his decisions in life.

Lorraine Heath

#15. Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you,' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long.

Cassandra Clare

#16. There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

Ray Winstone