Joanne Rowling Quotes
Why can’t I drink the potion instead?” asked Harry desperately. “Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable,” said Dumbledore.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
-
I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
-
To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
-
The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
-
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
-
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
-
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
-
Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
-
I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
-
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
-
I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
-
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
-
There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
-
At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
-
Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
-
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
-
There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
-
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
-
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?
-
The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
-
People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
-
Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the workers?
-
Businesses are beginning to really understand that they can market to passions on Instagram. They can leverage the creative canvas that we offer on Instagram and combine that with really good targeting to put the right story in front of the right person at the right time for an audience that is active and receptive to discovery.
-
Why can’t I drink the potion instead?” asked Harry desperately. “Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable,” said Dumbledore.
