Quotes of: Rowling Keyword

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

Colum McCann

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

Harvey Weinstein

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

James Carville

Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do.

Erin Gruwell

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?

John B. Tabb

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Steven Spielberg

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.

Steve Tisch

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

Donna Brazile

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

Marguerite Young

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

Gore Verbinski

I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

Joe Klein

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Roland Joffe

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.

Susanne Bier

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

Sam Raimi

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

Brian Greene

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

China Mieville

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Deborah Harkness

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Elizabeth Moon

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl