J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

It's pretty frustrating waiting for anything.

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like “shut up, shut up, shut upblah blah blah blah blaaaaah.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.

Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

I really don't have time for nonsense.

I hate it when people are late, and I hate being late.

Boys on set drives me a little bit loopy.

I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.

I'm not a patient person.

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Will you please shut the hell up!?

Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.

I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.