Joanne Rowling Quotes
They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
-
You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
-
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
-
How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
-
Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
-
There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
-
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
-
I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
-
I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
-
I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.
-
I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.
-
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
-
Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
-
If I had done a Disney movie nobody would care. They would not care. You may say oh, I grew up and I loved that movie, that was really super, but you wouldn’t care. People really will stop and talk to me about deeper issues, which I am excited to participate in.
-
Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
-
All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
-
The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.
-
My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
-
Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you.
-
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
-
Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.
-
They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.
