Joanne Rowling Quotes

Who's Kreacher?" "The house-elf who lives here," said Ron. "Nutter. Never met one like him." "He is not a nutter," said Hermione. "His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque like his mother", said Ron. "Is that normal, Hermione?

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• I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Community
  • Tolerance
  • Acceptance

• When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Live
  • Home
  • House

• It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Past
  • Best

• The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Family
  • Business
  • Father

• In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Pretty
  • Strong
  • Feeling

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Fear
  • Others
  • Greedy

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Industry
  • Publishing

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Question
  • Tennis
  • Lose

• Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Old

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia

• The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Long
  • Women
  • Struggle

• Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

  

  Mac Barnett
  • Good
  • Truth

• Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

  

  Ben Webster
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

  

  Lynn Coady

• Trifles make the sum of life.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Life

• Who's Kreacher?" "The house-elf who lives here," said Ron. "Nutter. Never met one like him." "He is not a nutter," said Hermione. "His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque like his mother", said Ron. "Is that normal, Hermione?

  

  Joanne Rowling
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