J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

I had no money. I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I'm like a kid at Halloween.

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

I'm very comfortable with uncomfortable situations, and I think that can seem odd to people, that I like the thrill of discomfort.

I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.

I don't particularly want to jump out of an airplane with a parachute if I don't have to. I don't want to go bungee jumping. I like adventure with a real purpose that I can buy into.

I'm a simple man; I like to stick to what I know.

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.

Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither.