Joanne Rowling Quotes

One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

Joanne Rowling

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• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Criticism

• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Breakfast
  • Habits

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talk
  • Ring
  • Rabbits

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Purpose

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Day

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• I was not an easy kid.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Easy
  • Kid

• We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Stupid
  • Celebrity
  • Become

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• You're always going to have terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • You
  • Always
  • Terrorism

• Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

  

  David Hockney
  • World
  • America

• I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Time
  • World

• I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

  

  Donald Sutherland
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Peace
  • Joy
  • Secret

• I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it's like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.

  

  Marisa Tomei
  • People
  • Night
  • Theatre

• One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Regret
  • Knowing