Joanne Rowling Quotes

I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.

Joanne Rowling

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• I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Learning
  • Sky
  • Intelligence

• I'm a reclusive weirdo.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Weirdo
  • Reclusive

• I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Life
  • Me
  • Winning

• A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Fun
  • You
  • Like

• The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Research

• You'll see it when you believe it.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Believe
  • You
  • See

• Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Me
  • Never

• Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation, into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
  • Innovation

• You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

  

  Kurt Braunohler

• I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Spiritual

• Seeing my child born is so much more important than anything else I've got going on.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Important

• It's almost a problem how much I enjoy my work.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Work

• Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

  

  Lynda Obst
  • Women
  • Business
  • Movie

• I think there are so many extra benefits to running besides the health ones that come from getting your heart rate up, sweating, and all that other good stuff.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Up
  • Good
  • Heart

• Any entrepreneur has to prepare for a lot of dark days, and they've got to really like what they are doing, and they have to have a reason for it to succeed.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Dark
  • Entrepreneur

• Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Work
  • Amazing

• Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Pretty much every show that comes on, I'll try to watch at least one episode of it. For me, there are three different levels. I watch the first episode, and if I love it, I'm lockin' it in for the rest of the season. If I'm not too sure about it, I will maybe tune in the next week. It it's just terrible, then I'm done.

  

  Dule Hill
  • Different
  • Done
  • Pretty

• My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Good
  • Inspired

• The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

  

  George A. Moore
  • May
  • Truth

• I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.

  

  Joanne Rowling