Joanne Harris Quotes

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

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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

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Jump

• If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Important
  • True
  • Risk

• Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Culture

• Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Important
  • Alive
  • Lines

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

  

  Joanne Harris
  • Important
  • Culture