Joanne Rowling Quotes

Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump,” said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. “How did you get out of the castle?” “I think Filch must’ve forgotten to lock the doors,” said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl.

Joanne Rowling

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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Control

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Down
  • Jump

• For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Free

• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Man

• When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • First

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • King

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Past

• A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Stop

• The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Interesting

• If I start to go around and look for stuff that's being written about me or about the band, chances are I'm not going to find what I'm looking for or what I'd want to be hearing. If I go out and look for it and it's out there, I'm really going to notice when it's not. And I'd hate to think that that would impact any decisions I'm making.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Band

• With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.

  

  Dany Heatley
  • Thinking
  • Made
  • Excited

• This is stupid. I now have stupid all over me.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Stupid

• Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump,” said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. “How did you get out of the castle?” “I think Filch must’ve forgotten to lock the doors,” said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Jump
  • Doors