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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5a4c43b | I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin. "And what happened?" pressed Ford. "It committed suicide," said Marvin," | Douglas Adams | ||
| 8a679f1 | May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years! | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| ef76123 | Through darkness you have come to your hope, and have now all your desire. Use well the days. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c922ee8 | the spirit of wickedness in high places is now so powerful and many-headed in its incarnations that there seems nothing more to do than personally refuse to worship any of the hydras' heads. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 390cbe9 | I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be. | tolkien lotr | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| cdfc02c | These are indeed strange days,' he (Eomer) muttered. 'Dreams and legends spring to life out of the grass. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| c48cb6a | Icinizden en az yarisini, arzuladigimin yarisi kadar bile tanimiyorum; ve yarinizdan azini hak ettiginizin ancak yarisi kadar sevebiliyorum. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 2e4cc9d | Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings. Thus Aragon for the first time in the full light of day beheld Eowyn, lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. | Éowyn the-fellowship-of-the-ring the-lord-of-the-rings j-r-r-tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a59d683 | What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| d7c1911 | Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowndilly, small and slender like. Hard as di'monds, soft as moonlight. Warm as sunlight, cold as frost in the stars. Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in springtime. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6ebf4ff | Donde has ido, si puedo preguntartelo? --dijo Thorin a Gandalf mientras cabalgaban. A mirar adelante --respondio Gandalf. ?Y que te hizo volver en el momento preciso? Mirar hacia atras. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6eed4a0 | I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil. But if doom denies this to me, then I will have naught: neither life diminished, nor love halved, nor honour abated. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| a5acb32 | Then out of the blackness in his mind he thought that he heard Dernhelm speaking; yet now the voice seemed strange, recalling some other voice that he had known. 'Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!' A cold voice answered: 'Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 7960a12 | But I have so little of any of these things! You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?" "No!" cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. "With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly." His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. "Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my hea.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 1ebdc1f | He smelt cake. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 0d353fd | We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6a5d12a | Yes, perhaps, yes' said Gollum. 'Smeagol always helps, if they asks - if they asks nicely.' ''Right!' says Sam. 'I does ask. And if that isn't nice enough, I begs. | humor sam-gamgee sméagol samwise-gamgee | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 366d3d9 | Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. 'This is a night as long as years', he said. 'How long will the day tarry?' 'Dawn is not far off', said Gamling, who had now climbed up beside him. 'But dawn will not help us, I fear' 'Yet dawn is ever the hope of men', said Aragorn. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 4eaf963 | it is horrible being all alone. | the-hobbit j-r-r-tolkien sad | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 96af4b5 | For a while the hobbits continued to talk and think of the past journey and of the perils that lay ahead; but such was the virtue of the land of Rivendell that soon all fear and anxiety was lifted from their minds. The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word.. | wisdom | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| a6bb9d0 | Frodo: I can't do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. It's like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn't want to know the end because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end it's only a passing thing this shadow, even darkness must pass.. | J. R. R. Tolkien | ||
| bc23af9 | I regard the tale of Arwen and Aragorn as the most important of the Appendices [in Lord of The Rings]; it is part of the essential story, and is only placed so, because it could not be worked into the main narrative without destroying its structure ... [From letter 181] | arwen arwen-and-aragorn | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 748b099 | I first read and when I was eighteen. It felt as though the author had taken every element I'd ever want in a story and woven them into one huge, seamless narrative; but more important, for me, Tolkien had created a place, a vast, beautiful, awesome landscape, which remained a resource long after the protagonists had finished their battles and gone their separate ways. In illustrating | the-hobbit lord-of-the-rings | Alan Lee | |
| a531785 | And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dur was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the d.. | sauron | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| b47775d | all i know about the bible is that wherever it goes there's trouble. the only time i ever heard of it being useful was when a stretcher bearer i was with at the battle of dundee told me that he'd once gotten hit by a mauser bullet in the heart, only he was carrying a bible in his tunic pocket and the bible saved his life. he told me that ever since he'd always carried a bible into battle with him and he fled perfectly safe because god was i.. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| fea0f0d | In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and not as he would wish them to be, was one of his salient strengths. | David McCullough | ||
| ee0f03d | Remove yourself, sir! | history funny david-mccullough john-adams | David McCullough | |
| 6ffc3de | Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing of his lifespot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was sometimes the case, these spritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed ope.. | Herman Melville | ||
| 02aee91 | Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntaril.. | whale first-lines water | Herman Melville | |
| 0c80836 | There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick! | Herman Melville | ||
| c00bf40 | In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents. Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings. But these marks do not seem to be impressed upon the isinglass substance above mentioned, but seem to be seen through it, as if they were engraved upon the body itself. N.. | whale moby-dick whales | Herman Melville | |
| 7d71679 | There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. | Herman Melville | ||
| 88b3013 | Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve? | Herman Melville | ||
| b360ab5 | Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. | fish whales creatures sea | Herman Melville | |
| d85812a | Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world. | world | Herman Melville | |
| 88a2646 | Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. | Herman Melville | ||
| b67058c | what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God! | Herman Melville | ||
| b037b3f | a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it. | Herman Melville | ||
| 8107992 | So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right. | Herman Melville | ||
| 59aad60 | Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. | Herman Melville | ||
| eb19d19 | But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!" | Herman Melville | ||
| 70180f2 | How're your children, Mrs. Phelps?' he asked. 'You know I haven't any! No one in his right mind, the good Lord knows, would have children!' said Mrs. Phelps, not quite sure why she was angry with this man. 'I wouldn't say that,' said Mrs. Bowles. 'I've had TWO children by Caesarian section. No use going through all that agony for a baby. The world must reproduce, you know, the race must go on. Besides, they sometimes look just like you, and.. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| eb96afe | She didn't watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning. | Ray Bradbury | ||
| 2f7b5c2 | Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that." | religion | Ray Bradbury |