Quotes of: Tolkien Keyword

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

Claire Cameron

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Calvin Trillin

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

Paul Engle

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

John McWhorter

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Jane Hirshfield

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Charles Lyell

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

Aristotle

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

William Labov

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.

The Map of Love

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

Robert Fitzgerald

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald

I see people detained for simple INS violations.

Sibel Edmonds

Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets.

Suman Pokhrel

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Thomas Henry Huxley

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

Thomas Henry Huxley

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

Erin McKean

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean

My first score for 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience.

Howard Shore

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Calvin Trillin

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

Erin McKean