Joanne Harris Quotes

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

Joanne Harris

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Government
  • Powerful
  • Turkey

• We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Vision
  • Solution
  • Ending

• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Why
  • May

• The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Language
  • Questions
  • Someone

• Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Superman

• I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

  

  Young Thug
  • Focus
  • Feel
  • Phone

• The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Important
  • Israel
  • Heritage

• I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

  

  Zach Braff
  • World
  • Job
  • Day

• There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Long
  • Stand

• I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Writing
  • Church
  • Singing

• You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Family
  • Religion
  • Need

• There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Fear
  • Faith

• When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Children
  • Positive

• Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

  

  Claude Bernard

• I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Life
  • Women
  • Bad

• Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

  

  Lady Gaga

• We get notes sent to us backstage from college students that say, 'My parents used to play your albums all the time! I grew up with you, and I love the new stuff.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • College
  • Students
  • Notes

• We gazed at the constellations, praising the portentous architecture of the sky with trite formulas.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Architecture
  • Formulas
  • Constellations

• You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Money
  • Game
  • Giving

• I don't come from a space where I gush and praise - the world is doing enough of that.

  

  Gauri Khan
  • World
  • Space
  • Praise

• I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

  

  Joanne Harris