[first lines] Galadriel: The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the...
Willard: My mission is to make it up into Cambodia. There's a Green Beret Colonel up there who's gone insane. I'm supposed to kill him. Chef: What? Oh, that's typical! Shit! Fuckin' Vietnam mission! I'm short, and we gotta go up there so you can kill...
It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.
Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?
A pair of great heels was much more satisfying than a man. They lasted longer, and better yet, they didn’t leave me for someone prettier.
You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
Be aware of your breathing and breathe naturally. This will lead you into unity with the great flow of Life, your true nature.
To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.
When “We’ve always done it that way” is replaced with “Let’s try something new,” associations will leap to greatness.
It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond," said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways.
If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.
You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...
A world is supported by four things....the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayer of righteous and the valour of the brave. But all this are nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
Man’s mind is a coast of great monuments, the source of wild and complex dreams and accomplishments that physical eyes have not seen.
All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...
Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.
I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.
The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.
