Tolkienesque Fantasy Quotes

#1. I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

Dashiell Hammett

#2. If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don't read big Tolkienesque fantasies - Tolkien didn't read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Would he love the house as much if his cat burglar didn't come back for the painting? He pushed that thought away, telling himself he was in the market for a house long before he'd laid eyes on the dark-clad figure running along the rooftop. Long before the kiss.

B. J. Daniels

#4. It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

Elisabeth Shue

#5. Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

Orison Swett Marden

#6. God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Beth Moore

#7. I don't think you could find any person in political life today who has been subjected to more attacks and had more money spent against her by special interests, among whom you have named a few, than I.

Hillary Clinton

#8. Diana Wynne Jones' excellent book 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland' is a compendium of the sort of lazy writing that has given fantasy fiction - especially the sub-section that features elves and dwarves and other Tolkienesque elements - a bad name.

Jane Lindskold

#9. The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

Anthony De Mello

#10. If we were to just accept we're not so different from each other, we wouldn't feel so alone.

Nicole Williams

#11. Megan's eyes could have drilled holes through butter

Brandon Sanderson

#12. My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her.

Columba Bush

#13. I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger.
It would perk up my day.

James Patterson

#14. I'm definitely gonna be the People's champion ... but I just ain't gonna be the champ the way you want me to be the champ. I'm gonna be the champ the way I wanna be.

Muhammad Ali

#15. The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

James G. Frazer