Joanne Rowling Quotes

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

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• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Never
  • Terrible
  • Produce

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Red
  • Apple

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Not Knowing

• I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Morning

• That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!

  

  Randy West
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Never

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Great
  • Think
  • Chinese

• All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • History
  • Scary
  • Gossip

• Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Money

• It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Women
  • Me
  • Point

• On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

  

  Betsy Beers

• She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Women
  • She
  • Kitchen

• Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Powerful

• I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

  

  Jaime Lerner
  • Death

• I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and doing it the right way.

  

  John David Washington
  • Job
  • American
  • Police

• Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Silence
  • Dumb
  • Uncle