Joanne Rowling Quotes

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Joanne Rowling

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Support

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Why
  • Night

• Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • High
  • Death
  • Moral

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Changes
  • Ignore
  • Environmental

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Light
  • Forever

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Inspired
  • Very
  • Tomboy

• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Home
  • Gun
  • Protection

• My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Diet

• I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Bit

• I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Door

• See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • May

• People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

  

  Bob Cousy
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Afraid