Joanne Rowling Quotes
Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.Joanne Rowling
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Ed Smith -
I usually say I left puberty at 58.
Ingmar Bergman -
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
Natalie Dormer -
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama -
I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
Yoko Ono -
If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
Gaby Hoffmann
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
Gaby Hoffmann -
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty -
My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
Dane Cook -
I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
Sam Smith -
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
Saina Nehwal
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
Olivier Martinez -
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
Vin Diesel -
Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
Randeep Hooda -
What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
Malcolm McDowell -
I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
Nathan Fillion
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia Woolf -
Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.
Carl von Clausewitz -
I've been struck by the upside-down priorities of the juvenile justice system. We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.
Marian Wright Edelman -
...the reason for this age's anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology - while in the other, certainty and confidence steadily decline. Our age is a master in developing truths while being wholly indifferent to certitude. It lacks confidence in the good.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.
Joanne Rowling