Quotes of: Rowling Keyword

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

Nicholas Sparks

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Orson Welles

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

Ricky Gervais

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

Seth Green

This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

Tom Ford

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

Trey Parker

The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.

Tony Scott

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Gloria Naylor

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Arthur Machen

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

Anne Sullivan

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Carlos Castaneda

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

Don Tapscott

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Franz Grillparzer

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.

Glenn Greenwald

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Karen Armstrong

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

Milan Kundera

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Susan Orlean

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

Tom Rath