Joanne Rowling Quotes

Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.

Joanne Rowling

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• Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Place

• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ideas

• Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Looks
  • Black-and-white

• I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Life
  • Great
  • Blessed

• Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Life
  • Know
  • Animal

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Baby
  • My Life

• I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Home
  • Married

• I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
  • Different
  • Future

• A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • High
  • Looks
  • Someone

• I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Risk

• When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Life
  • Know
  • Deep

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Man
  • Question

• I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Identity
  • Week

• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Want
  • Poetry
  • Personality

• Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Good
  • Women
  • Guy

• I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Belief

• When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Looks
  • Promise