#in

It is not possible even at great length to “pot” The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two … It was begun in 1937, and every part has been written many times. Hardly a word in its 600,000 or more has been unconsidered. And the placing, size, style, and contribution to the whole of the features, incidents, and chapters has been laboriously pondered. I do not say this in recommendation. It is, I feel, only too likely that I am deluded, lost in a web of vain imaginings of not much value to others – in spite of the fact that a few readers have found it good, on the whole. What I intend to say is this: I cannot substantially alter the thing. I have finished it, is “off my mind”: the labour has been colossal: and it must stand or fall, practically as it is. [1951] ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#imagination

Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah. ↗

— Mark Morris

#butts #definitely #detail #disney #i

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful. ↗

— Mark Morris

#complicated #dances #everybody #fabulous #going

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words. ↗

— Marcus Mumford

#books #focusing #helpful #into #just

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect. ↗

— Richard Morris

#catholic #even #get #his #least

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation. ↗

— Richard Morris

#circulation #great #great masses #many #masses

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days. ↗

— Richard Morris

#days #democratic #ditties #hymns #invite

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#drama #ecological #leading #life #obtaining

I don't think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#any #evolved #eyes #i #just

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. ↗

— Willie Morris

#heart #his #home #knows #must