Joanne Harris Quotes

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • High
  • Small

• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• Never having alone time is real tough on people.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Space
  • Astronomy

• I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • Never
  • Anything

• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Promise
  • Number
  • Transform

• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Liberty
  • Price
  • Cost

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Attitude

• I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Business
  • Change

• You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Society
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • School
  • News
  • Gender

• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Life
  • Fly

• I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Brother

• In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • People
  • Important
  • Strong

• This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Done
  • Thought

• If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Important
  • Culture