Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

J. K. Rowling Quotes - Page 11

All Quotes Adventure Age Ambition Art Austen Blame Bravery Bullying Change Character Cheating Childhood Children Chocolate Choices Courage Dad Dancing Darkness Dating Death Depression Desire Doubt Dying Earth Elders Evil Exercise Expectations Failing Failure Fame Family Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Flying Friendship Fun Funny Giving Glory Gold Goodbye Greatness Grief Harry Potter Hate Healing Heart Holiday Home Homework Horror House Hunting Hurt Husband Imagination Injury Innovation Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Killing Kissing Leaving Letting Go Liars Life Listening Literature Losing Love Loyalty Luck Lying Magic Meetings Memories Moon Morning Motivational Mountain Office Opportunity Pain Past Perspective Poverty Purpose Rage Reading Reality Reflection Responsibility Running Sacrifice School Seven Shame Silence Silver Singing Sirius Sleep Snape Son Soul Struggle Success Suffering Summer Talent Tea Team Time Today Tolerance Travel Twins Understanding Waiting Wall Water Weakness Wife Winning Worry Writing Youth

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.

Uncles, Vegetables, Cake

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, p.33, Pottermore

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

School, Men, Hogwarts

The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

Muggles, Wizards, Misfits

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

Cat, Night, Potatoes

The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

Magic, Sides, Trouble

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.22, Pottermore

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

Stories, Want

The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – " "Plumbers?" " – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed.

Thinking, Calling, Poor

I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

Writing, Thinking, Imagination

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Inspirational, Book, Reading

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Song, Funeral, Singing

So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!

Light, Fire, Mad

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Home, Pages, Hogwarts

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

Romance, Impossible

I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.

Fall, West Indies, Rocks

I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.

Ideas, Stones, Way

Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.

Humor, Dobby, Naked

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 8, 2000.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

Jobs, Believe, Book

I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

Hope, Voice, Water

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Life, Inspirational Life

He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world

Sports, Sleep, Class

Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.

Children, Book, Laughing

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Fear, Funeral, Darkness

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

Art, Morning, Fall

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

Thinking, Inspirational Harry Potter, Harry Potter Movie

And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.

Soulmate, Decision, Moments

You May Also Like: