Joanne Rowling Quotes

Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.

Joanne Rowling

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• I don't focus much on video. I watch here and there, perhaps two or three of my opponent's fights. That gives me a good idea of his style.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Good
  • Focus
  • Style

• I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

  

  Lance Burton
  • Always
  • Mistake
  • Waiting

• It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Movie
  • Problem
  • Couple

• I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• Young Indians are energetic and ambitious, have lots of ideas. They work around the difficult situation they face here. But the big challenge is to market products and services to the West, because costs there aren't coming down.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Challenge

• I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Chicago

• Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Great
  • Men

• Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

  

  Laurette Taylor
  • Truth
  • Connection

• Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Passion
  • Motivated

• I'm a competitive person.

  

  Bob Ehrlich

• The pitch is the most important thing for us: not the words, not on paper.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Important
  • Words

• It is well for one to know more than he says.

  

  Plautus

• I actually think that self-expression comes, sometimes, from what you wear, and having the freedom to be able to wear whatever you want for whatever mood you want to wear it, but to not feel frivolous that all of those things that help you self-express have to be things that you're committing to forever.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Forever

• I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person. That's my take.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Partner

• I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.

  

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

• Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

  

  Chris Riddell
  • Up
  • Great

• I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Guy

• Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Future
  • Present

• Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Trying

• These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Words
  • Wise
  • Forest

• Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Words
  • Interesting

• When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said 'The what of a what?' which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Long
  • Help

• Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Owl
  • Hogwarts
  • Toilet Seat