Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Never laugh at live dragons.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

J. R. R. Tolkien

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

J. R. R. Tolkien

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Iyanla Vanzant

Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Isaac Asimov

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

Isaac Asimov

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

Isaac Asimov

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Isaac Asimov

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

Isaac Asimov

The significant chemicals of living tissue are rickety and unstable, which is exactly what is needed for life.

Isaac Asimov

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Isaac Asimov

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Iris Apfel

You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.

Iris Apfel

If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything.

Immanuel Kant

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

Immanuel Kant

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Ellen Bass

Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way to discharge tension, work through emotional blocks, release anger, and gain self-esteem.

Irving Berlin

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Inga Muscio

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

Paul Tergat

Honestly, I want to say that life was very hard.

He told us that hebasicallydidn't want to spend the rest of his life in jail,

Neale Donald Walsch

You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.