Joanne Rowling Quotes
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
Joanne Rowling
Quotes to Explore
The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
Taylor Mali
Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
Ian Mckellen
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
Harmony Korine
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out
Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
Queen Latifah
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
Nathan Lane
