Showing posts with label J.R.R. Tolkien. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J.R.R. Tolkien. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Quotaria - Favorites

"Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth...
Tame the dragon and the gift is yours."
- Noela Evans

"A joke's a very serious thing."
- Charles Churchill

"A bookstore is one of the only
pieces of evidence we have that
people are still thinking."
- Jerry Seinfeld

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln

Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est
Yes, that is a very large amount of corn

It does not do to leave a live dragon out
of your calculations, if you live near him.
- J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit

Friday, September 04, 2009

Favorite Quotes

Two paradoxes are better than one;
they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller

"A child of five would understand this.
Send someone to fetch a child of five."
- Groucho Marx

Imagination is more important than knowledge,
for knowledge is limited while imagination
embraces the entire world.
- Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C Clarke

"Never laugh at live dragons."
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

"In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night,
No Evil Shall Escape My Sight
Let Those Who Worship Evil's Might
Beware My Power, Green Lantern's Light!"
- DC Comics: The Green Lantern's Oath

Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotaria

"Success didn't spoil me, I've
always been insufferable."
- Fran Lebowitz

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's
worth it because the future depends on them.
- Pam Davis

Happiness in intelligent people
is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway

I don't know half of you half as well as I
should like; and I like less than half of
you half as well as you deserve.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

A physicist is an atom's way
of knowing about atoms.
- George Wald

In the beginning there was nothing. God
said, 'Let there be light!' And there was
light. There was still nothing, but you
could see it a whole lot better.
- Ellen DeGeneres

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Quotes - Oneliners

"Not everyone who wanders is lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Someone's boring me. I think it's me."
- Dylan Thomas

"Adventure is just bad planning."
- Roald Amundsen

"Fate loves the fearless."
- James Russell Lowell

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself."
- Murray Walker