Joanne Rowling Quotes

Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go!" "Oh yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. "Hey -- hey you lot! Midgets!

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• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Reading is a huge part of life.

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Part

• Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • U.S.
  • Bureaucracy

• I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.

  

  Becky G
  • Singing
  • Big
  • Shower

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Democrat
  • Candidate
  • Unsuccessful

• In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Pay
  • Employees

• I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • Try
  • Now

• I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Game
  • Want
  • Humble

• I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Recognize

• I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Week

• It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • History
  • Achieving

• I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Team

• As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Learn
  • Relationships
  • Hopefully

• I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • School
  • High
  • City

• Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure

• Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Men
  • Real
  • Desert

• No hero in your tragedy,No daring in your escape,No salutes for your surrender,Nothing noble in your fate,Christ, what have you done? - The Pass (1989)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Done
  • Hero
  • Fate

• If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Slavery

• I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Drunk

• Working makes me happy, makes me calm.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Happy
  • Calm

• Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go!" "Oh yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. "Hey -- hey you lot! Midgets!

  

  Joanne Rowling