Tolkein Quotes

#1. I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I drew on a lot of Tolkein's descriptions of how he moves, but also the conceptual artist sketches.

Andy Serkis

#2. I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go out and greet those wonderful creatures and say a few nice words in a language invented by Tolkein. I've practiced, but I sound like Chewbacca making a New Year's speech.

Nina George

#4. I've always loved J.R.R. Tolkein and recently, Christine Feehan and J.K.Rowling. There are many as I'm an avid reader, but those three come to the fore.

Franny Armstrong

#5. He shook his head,'Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.'
'Is that still your favourite word?' asked Isola interestedly, 'I like "verisimilitude". Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is "cellar door",

Allyse Near

#6. Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Benjamin Tucker

#7. I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I'll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It's thrilling.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#8. Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination

Ilyas Kassam

#9. Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.

Ramona Koval

#10. The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#11. ... it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a hazard to society. If unpleasantness is to be avoided, they must be made to go outdoors and work off their animal spirits.

Alan Bradley

#12. The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come.

Alfred Rosenberg

#13. Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.

Mike White

#14. It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.

Mary Balogh