A Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Bend Blunt Chip Crack Forks Glasses Hates Knives Plates

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J. R. R. Tolkien
English - Writer
January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973

I love Bilbo Baggins. I relate really well to Bilbo!

Peter Jackson

If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if he does that as a warrior, that's just his thing.

Antoine Fuqua

It was great. I got to hang out with him [Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins], and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.

Benedict Cumberbatch

McDonald's revolutionized fast food. They introduced a way to eat food without knives, forks or plates. Most fast foods can be eaten while steering the wheel of a car and the restaurants are usually drive through.

Eric Schlosser

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!

J. R. R. Tolkien

I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

Ian Holm

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

John Kruk

I like to think I'm one of the least athletic people in real life. I don't do a whole lot when I'm left to my own devices except wield forks and knives.

Tessa Thompson

You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!

Sarah Dessen

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Jonathan Swift

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.

L. M. Boyd

I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.

Maika Monroe

The crazy thing is I got all of these shoes, and probably 80 percent of them I've never worn before. I've worn all the glasses. I sleep in them, bend them up a little bit. Glasses are on all the time except when I'm at practice or at work.

Von Miller

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

Bob Dylan

The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.

Bruno Schulz

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