Joanne Rowling Quotes
You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.
Quotes to Explore
-
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
-
Spare no expense to save money on this one.
-
I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
-
I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
-
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
-
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
-
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
-
I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.
-
Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
-
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
-
I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
-
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
-
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
-
It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
-
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-
I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
-
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
-
On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
-
People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
-
My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.
-
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
-
The appropriate time for the ultimate release of the deposits will have arrived at the onset of the first post-war slump.
-
I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.
-
You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.
