Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

J. R. R. Tolkien

They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.

J. R. R. Tolkien

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

J. R. R. Tolkien

My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

J. R. R. Tolkien

Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.

Izaak Walton

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

Isaac Marion

Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.

Isaac Asimov

Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

Isaac Asimov

Boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Iris Chang

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

Elton John

Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

Elton John

I like Stevie Wonder. I usually wind up playing the same old tapes in the car.

Elton John

Simon Cowell and I are great friends, and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.

Elton John

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

Elton John

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

Ellen Gilchrist

Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind is bearing me across the sky.

Irving Langmuir

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

Irving Kristol

...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."

Cliff Floyd

Honestly, .500 would be great. Just winning would be great. Just to get something positive, that's enough.

Paul Ryan

People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.

Paul Ryan

A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority to enact the kind of fundamental reforms America has not seen since Ronald Reagan's first year.

Paul Henderson

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

Pau Gasol

I know that if I perform at a really high level, we're going to have a better chance to win.

Pau Gasol

I'm not the number-one guy here ... if it translates to winning, I don't mind taking a step back as far as roles.

Pau Gasol

It doesn't matter who gets what. It's just a matter of doing what it takes to win.

Paul Arden

Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one. He chips and putts equally well. And will probably have a better knowledge of the course. So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him victory? Experience. He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which makes him more cautious. The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution. That is his edge. It is the same with all of us. Knowledge makes us play safe. The secret is to stay childish.

Paul Azinger

The best players in the world are playing to make history. There are only four tournaments you can win to make history, and TPC (The Players Championship) is not one of them. And neither are those world events. And you're not going to make history winning some kind of FedEx Cup.

Paul Auster

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

Paul Auster

I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.

Paul Auster

What I'm trying to do in [Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

Paul Auster

I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an autobiography. I think of it as a literary composition - similar to music - composed of autobiographical fragments. I'm really not telling the story of my life in a coherent narrative form.

Pat Cooper

I knew I loved it because I could take the failures. I was like a professional fighter - they're beat 20 times in a row and they just want that one win.