Joanne Rowling Quotes

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

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• I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Other
  • Polite

• Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• Let my enemies devour each other.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Enemies
  • Other
  • Devour

• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Up
  • Other

• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Become

• Women know how to scare other women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Know
  • Other

• I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Kids
  • Kid
  • Other

• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • May
  • Person
  • Evidence

• My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Other

• I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Together
  • Interesting

• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Other

• Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Sorry
  • Without
  • Other

• Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • America
  • Just
  • Other

• I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Husband
  • Dinner
  • Cook

• With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Oil
  • Other
  • Trading

• I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Know
  • Two
  • Other

• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Sweet

• The Raptors have to aspire to be the Heat and the Lakers.

  

  Tim Leiweke
  • Heat
  • Aspire
  • Lakers

• I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Birthday
  • Careers
  • Psychological

• My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one of those dads who had read George Orwell and was a member of the Communist party. We had no books at home.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Father
  • Party

• My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • You
  • Fly

• I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Men
  • Writing

• Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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