Joanne Rowling Quotes
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.
Joanne Rowling
Quotes to Explore
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
Victoria Pratt
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
J. C. Ryle
Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
Imelda Marcos
The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
Fedor Emelianenko
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
Lamar Alexander
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
Rachael Leigh Cook
Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
Taylor Sheridan
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
Hailee Steinfeld
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Uzo Aduba
The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
Garry Trudeau
Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
Rachel Nichols
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty
Apparently, all I do is walk my dogs. In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.
Jim Parsons
