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| f378e64 | The mice were furious." [...] "Oh yes," said the old man mildly. "Yes well so I expect were the dogs and cats and duckbilled platypuses, but..." "Ah, but they hadn't paid for it you see, had they?" "Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" [...] "Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose fo.. | humour science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| 38cd10e | ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him. | Douglas Adams | ||
| efaee35 | In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true." | strange survival universe | Douglas Adams | |
| cdad9f8 | He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 695563c | I think he probably wants you to play Scrabble with him again,' said Ford, 'he's pointing to the letters.' 'Probably spelt crzjgrdwldiwdc again, I keep on telling him there's only one g in crzjgrdwldiwdc. | Douglas Adams | ||
| b7d2bd4 | The fact that all of this was happening in virtual space made no difference. Being virtually killed by virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 98c0496 | The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining to the harassed man that the phrase "too much Mozart" was, given any reasonable definition of those three words, an inherently self-contradictory expression, and that any sentence which contained such a phrase would be thereby rendered meaningless and could not, consequently, be advanced as part of an.. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 7157ae4 | No," he said, "look, it's very, very simple ... all I want ... is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Keep quiet and listen." And he sat. He told the Nutri-Matic about India, he told it about China, he told it about Ceylon. He told it about broad leaves drying in the sun. He told it about silver teapots. He told it about summer afternoons on the lawn. He told it about putting in the milk before the tea so it wouldn't get scalded.. | science-fiction | Douglas Adams | |
| 8d48ce4 | Deep in the rain forest it was doing what it usually does in rain forests, which was raining: hence the name. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 9354e79 | The sound of her footsteps was like a stream falling gently downhill over cool stones in the quiet of night. | j-r-r-tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 6276b15 | But the helm of her secrecy had fallen from her, and her bright hair, released from its bonds, gleamed with pale gold upon her shoulders. Her eyes grey as the sea were hard and fell, and yet tears were on her cheek. A sword was in her hand, and she raised her shield against the horror of her enemy's eyes. [...]Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible. A swift stroke sh.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d7e0436 | Gandalf: Often does hatred hurt itself! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| fdc16d7 | All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and marriageable women to the fortunes of war, because bearing and raising the next generation of warriors is not needed for equality-loving elves. Equality-loving elves. Who are monarchists. With a class system. Of ranks. Battles are more fun when attractive young women are dismembered and desecrated.. | peter-jackson tolkien | John C. Wright | |
| 472242c | Of the Three Rings that the Elves had preserved unsullied no open word was ever spoken among the Wise, and few even of the Eldar knew where they were bestowed. Yet after the fall of Sauron their power was ever at work, and where they abode there mirth also dwelt and all things were unstained by the griefs of time. Therefore ere the Third Age was ended the Elves perceived that the Ring of Sapphire was with Elrond, in the fair valley of Riven.. | elves galadriel imladris lorien rivendell three-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 96fd66f | There may come a time at last that I | Tolkien J. R. R. | ||
| b65aa28 | What exactly was Jesus' take on violent capitalism? I also have some big ideas for changing the way we think about literary morals as they pertain to legislation. Rather than suffer another attempt by the religious right to base our legalese upon the Bible, I would vote that we found it squarely upon the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. The citizens of Middle Earth had much more tolerant policies in their governing bodies. For example, Elrond .. | Nick Offerman | ||
| 7e9f237 | The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1ddee0f | The great storm is coming, but the tide has turned. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| b5a681a | It is said that the skill of the Dwarves is in their hands rather than in their tongues, yet that is not true of Gimli. For none have ever made to me a request so bold and yet so courteous...I do not foretell, for all foretelling is now vain: on the one hand lies darkness, and on the other only hope. But if hope should not fail, then I say to you, Gimli son of Gloin, that your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no .. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d7e127d | I did nothing but run away from the time I was a puppy, and I kept on running and roving until one fine morning - a very fine morning, with the sun in my eyes - I fell over the world's edge chasing a butterfly. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 926e49b | And Iluvatar spoke to Ulmo, and said: 'Seest thou not how here in this little realm in the Deeps of Time Melkor hath made war upon thy province? He hath bethought him of bitter cold immoderate, and yet hath not destroyed the beauty of thy fountains, nor of my clear pools. Behold the snow, and the cunning work of frost! Melkor hath devised heats and fire without restraint, and hath not dried up thy desire nor utterly quelled the music of the.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 3977900 | All now took leave of the Lord of the City and went to rest while they still could. Outside there was a starless blackness as Gandalf, with Pippin beside him bearing a small torch, made his way to their lodging. They did not speak until they were behind closed doors. Then at last Pippin took Gandalf's hand. 'Tell me,' he said, 'is there any hope? For Frodo, I mean; or at least mostly for Frodo.' Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. 'There.. | gandalf j-r-r-tolkien pippin the-lord-of-the-rings the-return-of-the-king | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| d066489 | evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7da8f1c | The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| cc62763 | Frodo began to feel restless, and the old paths seemed too well-trodden. He looked at maps, and wondered what lay beyond their edges: maps made in the Shire showed mostly white spaces beyond its borders. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 58ff084 | Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried: 'Aure entuluva! Day shall come again!' Seventy times he uttered that cry; but they took him at last alive... | fantasy hurin silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 15a90a0 | I don't think I know your name.' 'Yes, yes my dear sir and I do know your name Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don't remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me. | gandalf hobbit i-am-gandalf jrr-tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 5aa6c0c | For that woe is past,' said Galadriel; 'and I would take what joy is here left, untroubled by memory. And maybe there is woe enough yet to come, though still hope may seem bright. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 26e8d4c | You will soon be well, if I do not talk you to death. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 39dcf57 | It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not. I am glad that I know about them, a little. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 92af0db | But it is not your own Shire,' said Gildor. 'Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| db8ec27 | There came a time near dawn on the eve of spring, and Luthien danced upon a green hill; and suddenly she began to sing. Keen, heart-piercing was her song as the song of the lark that rises from the gates of night and pours its voice among the dying stars, seeing the sun behind the walls of the world; and the song of Luthien released the bonds of winter, and the frozen waters spoke, and flowers sprang from the cold earth where he feet had pa.. | fantasy luthien silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7c7d831 | Do you remember when we first met? I thought I had wandered into a dream. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9310689 | If that's being queer, then we could do with a bit more queerness in these parts. | queer strange | J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 11ca73e | Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!" | humor relief | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 34dc07c | Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,' said Gimli. 'Maybe,' said Elrond, 'but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.' 'Yet sworn word may strengthen quaking heart,' said Gimli. 'Or break it,' said Elrond. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 9d42a72 | As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| e566a4f | Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it. | middle-earth tolkien wish wishing | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b54b7a8 | Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| bf509ff | The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power." Signed Wilbur and Orville Wright, March 12, 1906." | David McCullough | ||
| 47836c9 | We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it. | David McCullough | ||
| 987fa31 | George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of courage, of inexperience--which is sometimes a great help--and a strong desire to be my very best." | george-p-a-healy traveling | David McCullough | |
| 23eddcd | He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. | Herman Melville | ||
| e523c86 | However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it. | nature science technology the-ocean the-sea | Herman Melville |