Joanne Rowling Quotes

Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!

Joanne Rowling

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Mom

• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Wise
  • Show

• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Alone
  • Media
  • Social Media

• All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Never
  • Thought

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Brain
  • Model

• For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Done
  • White
  • Election

• I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Myself
  • Wonder
  • Worry

• My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Great
  • City
  • Commitment

• As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Change
  • Institutions

• Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Blue
  • Face
  • Strategy

• You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Know
  • Fans

• I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Superman

• Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • People
  • Community
  • Space

• I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Work
  • Different
  • Energy

• What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Fine
  • Enlightened
  • Intrigued

• After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!

  

  Roger Taylor Queen
  • People
  • Music
  • Change

• Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Great
  • Important