"A pen is to me as a beak…" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak…
— David Lack
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I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their…
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's…
— Jack Handey
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High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and…
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak…
— Unknown Author
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not…
— Thomas Huxley
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I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I…
— Matt Lauer
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
— Edward Abbey
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It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.
— Phyllis Diller
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Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The…
— Guy Murchie
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I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that…
— Unknown Author
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While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and…
— Felix Frankfurter
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