Joanne Rowling Quotes

Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

Joanne Rowling

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• I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Time
  • Play
  • Excited

• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Progress
  • Place
  • Now

• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • May
  • Food
  • Feel

• In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

  

  Om Puri
  • Stories
  • Actors
  • Films

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Love
  • Yourself
  • Neighbor

• One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Society
  • City
  • Values

• A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Career
  • Seem

• My mother was always supportive.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Supportive

• I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Control
  • Rest

• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Bad
  • Corruption
  • Dictatorship

• To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Environment
  • Weird

• Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • May
  • Think
  • Plan

• I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • World
  • Love
  • Walk

• Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Family
  • Listening

• I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.

  

  Edgar Hilsenrath
  • Afraid
  • Islam
  • Admit

• I'm sorry, if you've been married for five minutes, you've sacrificed something, you've looked over at your partner and have gone, "Oh my God this is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life." And then the next moment it's "This is the most beautiful and extraordinary human being, and I'm going to stick with it because I love them more than anyone else." That monologue to me is the universal thing, especially for women because I feel like that's the big thing with women.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Beautiful
  • Mistake
  • Sorry

• Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Up
  • World

• Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...

  

  Joanne Rowling