Quotes of: Towering Keyword

Frodo: [to Gollum] There is no promise you can make that I can trust.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Grima Wormtongue: His staff. I told you to take the Wizard's staff.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Legolas: [of the Uruk-hai] They run as if the very whips of their masters were behind them.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Gimli: [Orcs begin their attack on Helm's Deep] Send them to me!

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Aragorn: Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall. Legolas: [of Merry and Pippin] They may yet be alive.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

Ben Shapiro

Steve McCroskey: [seeing airplane from tower] It's coming right at us! [he then jumps out of a window]

Airplane!

Stephenson had large wrought-iron boiler plates available and he also had the courage of his calculations... The idea found its best-known expression in the Menai railway bridge opened in 1850. Stephenson's beams, which weighed 1,500 tons each, were ...

The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor

Boromir: My father is a noble man, but his rule is failing, and our people lose faith. He looks to me to make things right and I would do it. I would see the glory of Gondor restored. Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glim...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Parker: [firing machine gun] I'm out of .30 Caliber! Private Jackson: [lining shots] Bleesed be the Lord my strength, which teaches my hands to the war, and my fingers to fight. [fires rifle twice] Private Jackson: My goodness and my fortress... my h...

Saving Private Ryan

Perfect,” he said to himself. “Every time I figure you bastards out, you change again.

The Exodus Towers

She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.

Babel Tower

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Sarah Orne Jewett

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Adam Sedgwick

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.

Robert Crumb

Only theory can turn a heap of facts into a tower of knowledge

Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle

The prophecy has come true! You put the sea salt in the soup...You are the one!

Songs and Stories from Tesla's Tower

Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?" "Po-ta-toes!" said Sam.

The Two Towers

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

Gustave Eiffel

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.

Pete Conrad

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.

Prince Charles