FastSaying

With the satellite, we can say the whole Amazon basin is doing something.


Alfredo R. Huete

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Most of the vegetation around the world follows a general pattern in which plants get green and lush...
ALFREDO R. HUETE Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that's the sheer weight of living material...
RICHARD PRESTON He thought much but said little.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. ...
ALEX SHOUMATOFF You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strang...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to fi...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
MITCH HEDBERG Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively.
SARAH PARCAK What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capi...
DAN FARMER Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic m...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.
JOHN GLENN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're s...
JEFFREY TAMBOR My Precioussss!
-Gollum
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The higher out-of-stock position suggests that either Toys 'R' Us is not allocating additional produ...
MARK ROWEN Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.
JACK MA Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL I'm happy to say that I am in remission. That R word is something critically important to cancer...
KATHY GIUSTI [Others are quick to strike Amazon from the list as well.] It's unlikely, ... The objective is to ge...
JOSH BERNOFF Trauma funds aren't going into the San Gabriel Valley, but paying for the trauma patients that get t...
CAROL MEYER Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE Doing something nice for someone can change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but their world. L...
LILY CHATTERJEE It's a diversionary tactic. The administration has done everything it can ... to avoid dealing with ...
GLEN SPAIN If we continue to tap into the basin too much, ocean water can get in and contaminate the clean wate...
CURTIS WEEKS I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The Legend of Zorro,
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wron...
MARGARET ATWOOD It's expensive, but it has a lot of benefits ... for Amazon and Amazon shareholders. It not only sav...
JEFF BEZOS If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible.
ROMEO MILLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN There's evidence that Amazon has done its homework. "They used insight to refine an offering that wo...
GENE DETROYER this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolu...
ASSATA SHAKUR 23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
JAMES C. DOBSON Our issue is that we didn't issue the permit or inspect the site, ... We saw the basin on the news, ...
GINA MCCARTHY I'd definitely say that when I'm alone with a girl, I'm doing the baby voices, all that stuff, rubbi...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet...
JOANNA LUMLEY Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF For the whole thing to go out, particularly for a satellite that's been in business for five years, ...
DENNIS LEIBOWITZ A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see s...
ROXANE GAY Life is a paradiddle...

R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.
JAY LONDON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Works, first and foremost! That is to say, doing, doing, doing! The 'faith' that goes with it will s...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You'd think, since goodreads is now part of Amazon, it would be updated/updateable as Amazon is upda...
CINDY (CL) ROWELL COWLES We need to be doing something with the Avenue heritage.
BRUCE WILLIAMS Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.
RACHEL HAUCK Doing what's right is seldom easy.
JANICE HARDY Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were tryi...
JANICE HARDY You can't make other people do "right." All you can do is "right" yourself, and sometimes even that'...
BILLY C LEE Don't ask more than someone's best, and don't give less than your best.
JIM GENOVESE In doing what is necessary you sometimes end up doing the impossible.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)

"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making e...
ELLE VARNER People are now doing R&D on expanded polystyrene foam.
BARRY BARRETT With this being a mandated thing and the limitation and controls for spending that the state imposes...
JOE EUCLIDE It couldn't have been that different than what Arapahoe Basin has been dealing with for 30 years or ...
KNOX WILLIAMS The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first pl...
JOHN OSBORNE Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
LAURIE R. KING Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because th...
LAURIE R. KING To have these partners jump into the deal substantiates that there is a market opportunity for satel...
ROBERT PECK If the technology does what we say it can do, they'll be buying them for the whole system.
BRUCE THOMAS With the advent of technology - TV and satellite - we see disasters worldwide. None of us are immune...
IRENE DILLON The whole process of appeal is something we are considering.
JEFF LEWIS

More Alfredo R. Huete

Most of the vegetation around the world follows a general pattern in which plants get green and lush...
ALFREDO R. HUETE It's poised to be the America Online for Turkey. They've realized the person who buys TVs is also th...
ALFREDO VIEGAS We still think Turkey's pretty compelling.
ALFREDO VIEGAS The new economy places a lot of value on intellectual property and content.
ALFREDO VIEGAS The name of the game in Turkey has been conglomerates and the banks. But we feel that's not where th...
ALFREDO VIEGAS We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.
ALFREDO STROESSNER There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.
ALFREDO STROESSNER The state of siege was necessary. There was subversion in Latin America. It was more of a preventive...
ALFREDO STROESSNER I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.
ALFREDO STROESSNER I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there w...
ALFREDO STROESSNER A lot of people have asked for interviews, but we have said no. This is a special case. But we are i...
ALFREDO STROESSNER Sometimes President Uribe is hit with the impact that some facts produce in the public arena. And th...
ALFREDO RANGEL I not only think he will be re-elected, but he's going to win in the first round. I don't see any ca...
ALFREDO RANGEL It has generated an environment where to talk badly about Uribe is seen as being unpatriotic, sort o...
ALFREDO RANGEL He confronts problems very directly and in direct, colloquial language. He has a great capacity for ...
ALFREDO RANGEL You can put together powerful legal arguments both for and against this, so in the end, it's a polit...
ALFREDO RANGEL If there's a perception from the jury that they were going to present evidence, then they might thin...
ALFREDO PARRISH [Fazio's case is a window into] the dark side of the real estate business, ... Real estate agents go...
ALFREDO PARRISH This was a hard day.
ALFREDO PARRISH I believe that the state kept the report from us, ... It showed Mr. Pierce's innocence.
ALFREDO PARRISH No, ... I want you to lie.
ALFREDO PARRISH The people of Ecuador, particularly the people of Quito, today have ended the dictatorship, the immo...
ALFREDO PALACIO a minimal, not a maximal agenda, a starting point, not the end. This basic commitment must be assume...
ALFREDO PALACIO The people of Ecuador today have decided to save the republic, a republic of hope, in whose streets ...
ALFREDO PALACIO Our second millennium faces the reality of growing poverty in two-thirds of the planet, ... Water is...
ALFREDO PALACIO Our second millennium faces the reality of growing poverty in two-thirds of the planet, ... Entire n...
ALFREDO PALACIO [The country's military commanders then announced that they would recognize the rule of Vice Preside...
ALFREDO PALACIO Whether it's one spy or hundreds, they contribute to the culture of doubt. From the early stages of ...
ALFREDO MESA I was a big fan of Mr. Cason. He was very effective. He had a very interesting way of delivering his...
ALFREDO MESA This is still about a little boy who lost his mother at sea, trying to get to freedom. That's all th...
ALFREDO MESA This is America. Healthy debate -- protests -- are legal. There were people protesting outside the M...
ALFREDO MESA Every day, when you walk out the door, you're worried because you don't have papers.
ALFREDO HERNANDEZ We have to start with the basic rules. There has to be zero tolerance.
ALFREDO HERNANDEZ The point is to make them understand.
ALFREDO HERNANDEZ It's the beginning of a culture of legality.
ALFREDO HERNANDEZ Democrats need to understand: They're not going to take us for granted.
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ We aren't talking about people with great disposable incomes.
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ Everyone else frankly is quite tepid about it.
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ We had about 20 tables, and they were just overwhelmed and people just started walking away. We just...
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ We shall arm ourselves, and in America, the only weapon that counts is the vote. Be prepared to defe...
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ I would do 15 minutes in English, then go do 45 minutes in Spanish. It was a lot of work.
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ We're hearing from folks everywhere. We're just being inundated. It's the only thing on people's min...
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ There was not some sort of pro-bestiality lobby.
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ The Chicano movement was a direct result of the Black civil rights movement, and all of us were insp...
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ Without focusing on employer sanctions, you're just whistling Dixie .
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ The beauty of Spring Training is there's always a lot of new faces. Everybody's excited and you've g...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN I am very proud to be here and to be with such a powerful group. This is my country's team. It's a p...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN I'm here because I want this to come out well and I have a lot of respect for the boys on the team. ...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN I'm not sure if the USA has ever been exposed to this type of tradition. Fans in the USA applaud but...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN Same thing they did in the regular season. Fastballs, change-ups, he's just not swinging good.
ALFREDO GRIFFIN He said he is hitting the ball right at somebody.
ALFREDO GRIFFIN Tom was like a father to me.
ALFREDO GRIFFIN It's a Latin tradition that goes way back. It's a way to pump up the players and a way for the playe...
ALFREDO GRIFFIN I'm trying to help him build his confidence. He can do a lot of things. He can field. He can hit. He...
ALFREDO AMEZAGA To me, he's one of the best guys I've ever seen at this stage of his career. He can be another Alex ...
ALFREDO AMEZAGA It was one of the best things that have happened to me, a tournament like that representing your cou...
ALFREDO AMEZAGA It was the best thing that happened to me, a tournament like that.
ALFREDO AMEZAGA Every country is going to watch their players, and they are going to see how much pride they have pl...
ALFREDO AMEZAGA Our local programming teams have done an extraordinary job creating great Spanish-language radio tha...
ALFREDO ALONSO Hispanics tend to use radio very frequently. They spend longer listening to radio. The Hispanic popu...
ALFREDO ALONSO You don't have to pay a monthly subscription.
ALFREDO ALONSO Reggaeton is the first Spanish-language genre that Mexicans like, Caribbeans like it and South Ameri...
ALFREDO ALONSO Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where t...
ALFREDO ALONSO Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where t...
ALFREDO ALONSO The popularity comes from the fact that these radio stations play a real broad catalog of music, so ...
ALFREDO ALONSO We are a Spanish radio station company that goes after Hispanics that are bilingual. They really liv...
ALFREDO ALONSO Our local programming teams have done an extraordinary job creating great Spanish-language radio tha...
ALFREDO ALONSO I like to come up with new formats that are tailor-made for each market. In Houston, we saw there wa...
ALFREDO ALONSO Usually red sauces don't marry well with whole-wheat pastas. The bitter flavor of whole wheat must b...
ALFREDO D'INNOCENZO There are no signs of rain coming down.
ALFREDO VEGA April has been running way above normal. The average monthly temperature (this month) is 78.8, which...
ALFREDO VEGA It's affected all of Deep South Texas.
ALFREDO VEGA Another certainty points to the uncertainty of who will be in second place, Lourdes Flores or Alan G...
ALFREDO TORRES The news this week is that the trend has stayed the same.
ALFREDO TORRES Curiously, Flores has fell into second place without really losing popular support. This has happene...
ALFREDO TORRES Cordoba's marketing was very poor.
ALFREDO ROMEO Cordoba is not on the cutting edge, so to speak, economically or technologically speaking. But the s...
ALFREDO ROMEO Depending on the justice of the peace, a violator can be cited between $50 and $100.
ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ The two most common train accidents occur because of driver inattention and intoxication.
ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ We've always been proud of him, but more now. He's shown us that not being able to hear or talk isn'...
ALFREDO MARTINEZ It's something that gives us an example. These people earn and they strengthen themselves.
ALFREDO MARTINEZ We just didn't expect it. We don't have shutters up, so now if anything goes flying, it will come ri...
ALFREDO MANRARA Everything that we gained was a major struggle. It makes me sad. We worked so much and ...
ALFREDO FIGUEROA He was focused on one thing: organizing a union.
ALFREDO FIGUEROA If the box didn't have a union label, forget it. That box didn't sell.
ALFREDO FIGUEROA The United States should rethink its policy towards Cuba and come forth with some innovative and new...
ALFREDO DURAN We are taking steps toward a more expensive housing situation. A couple years ago, she might have be...
ALFREDO CHAPARRO What we are seeing is (non-profit organizations involved in housing) are needing to serve more.
ALFREDO CHAPARRO We are in a tight spot right now.
ALFREDO CHAPARRO These people are fueled by resentment and anger and they have focused it in every possible way again...
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ Every football fan will remember him. I really feel his loss.
ALFREDO DI STEFANO Football fans everywhere will remember him, he was one of the best forwards I've ever seen.
ALFREDO DI STEFANO I'd like to thank all those who showed concern for me and I send them a kiss. I can't find words of ...
ALFREDO DI STEFANO We have lived for three years without a fatality and (there have been) three demonstrations against ...
ALFREDO PEREZ RUBALCABA This is a corporate matter and we maintain the same position as before, which is that this is a matt...
ALFREDO PEREZ RUBALCABA If you bought yarn, you couldn't buy a jacket.
HERALD ALFREDO CASTILLO I always say to people you can be a star at whatever you are. I am a star at knitting.
HERALD ALFREDO CASTILLO Castro basically told people if you don't want to be part of the government, part of the society, th...
HERALD ALFREDO CASTILLO She asked me a few questions. Technical things.
HERALD ALFREDO CASTILLO We all thought we were finally going to be free.
HERALD ALFREDO CASTILLO Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write un...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religio...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the eart...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabi...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or conte...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Not all who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wis...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one w...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step ont...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has go...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Then the enchantment became more dreamlike, until he felt that an endless river of swelling gold and...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire&...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could no...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a di...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things on...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or j...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as wel...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more p...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally sma...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wa...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy t...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my he...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN