I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
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I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is...
MARCIA GAY HARDEN No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ...
LEMONY SNICKET The road goes ever on and on
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I...
RICHARD LAGRAVENESE Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS Being different is not just a great thing, it is a blessing!
SUJISH KANDAMPULLY Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast.'
The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph...
WILLIAM GOLDING They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
PHILIPPA BOYENS You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
BRIAN ENO Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun, and you might meet 'em both if you show up here...
JOSH THOMPSON You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Through shadow,
to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight."- "Excerpt from Edge Of Night ...
JRR TOLKEIN I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How are we supposed to get in?”
Stella kicked the metal shutter.
“Fool of a Took!” ...
MICHELLE HODKIN The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense...
SUSHIL SINGH I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
NATHAN KRESS It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made...
JAMES GRAY I'm sorry I brought this upon you, my boy. I'm sorry you must carry this burden. I'm sorry for every...
LORD OF THE RINGS All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old who are strong do not wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
LORD OF THE RINGS PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death i...
LORD OF THE RINGS How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to und...
LORD OF THE RINGS I'm naked in the dark...there's nothing...nothing...
LORD OF THE RINGS I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.
LORD OF THE RINGS Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tem...
LORD OF THE RINGS My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring
LORD OF THE RINGS Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS The mines are no place for a pony, even one so brave as Bill. Bye-bye Bill.
LORD OF THE RINGS They will find the Ring, and kill the one who carries it.
LORD OF THE RINGS So you have chosen.....Death.
LORD OF THE RINGS ...But the hearts of men are easily corrupted... And the ring of power has a will of its own.
LORD OF THE RINGS PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.
GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end her...
LORD OF THE RINGS Im still runnin against the wind
Well Im older now and still
Against the wind
BOB SEGER Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Not all that have fallen are vanquished.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"W...
JAMES A. OWEN It is but a shadow and thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek.
LOED OF THE RINGS The stag’s enormous head turned slightly—toward the wagon, toward the small window.
T...
SARAH J. MAAS But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Gollum merece la muerte. La merece, sin duda. Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo did not destroy the Ring; Gollum did. This is something he would always be reminded of, especi...
STEVE BIVANS Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Elrond,” Bruce said. “The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It’s the meeting w...
ANDY WEIR America indeed has become a progressive nation, if we understand "progressive" to mean progressing a...
RON BRACKIN No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any gues...
BARBARA STANWYCK There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what ...
BARBARA STANWYCK Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
PETER DINKLAGE Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strang...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver...
GANDALS Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
IAN MCKELLEN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO It's the deep breath before the plunge.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they ...
JUNOT DíAZ I tried reading The Lord of the Rings books. I got about fifty pages in... I got tired of reading th...
MIKE STOKLASA I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once.
"El...
JIM BUTCHER Chasing ghosts while pursued by daemons...
GAIL CARRIGER He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs we...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am saying the choices we make in captivity are not always the choices we make in freedom. And thus...
CASSANDRA CLARE Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, come forward!
KEN ROSATO The Lord seeks to establish status quo before His return. He is gathering His sheep, His birds, His ...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR ( GREATEST OF ALL ROMANCES, YOUR POTTER'S Barbara Asher asks the detectives to turn the tape off, and then she has a discussion with the polic...
ROBERT NELSON It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...
BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when th...
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