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We never had any doubt that Harry Potter and his world came from the rich and extraordinary imaginat...
BARBARA MARCUS I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!
ASAP ROCKY We are delighted to announce that worldwide sales for the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling have now...
CHRISTOPHER LITTLE JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise e...
STEPHEN PROSAPIO Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid
J.K. ROWLING Orang yang paling bahagia di dunia adalah orang yang bisa menggunakan Cermin Tarsah seperti cermin b...
J.K. ROWLING Hogsmeade looked like a Christmas card; the little thatched cottages and shops were all covered in a...
J.K. ROWLING El mundo no se divide en gente buena y mala; todos tenemos luz y oscuridad dentro de nosotros, lo qu...
J.K. ROWLING Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that...
STEPHEN KING You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from...
JACK THORNE It's alright" said a dreamy voice from beside Harry as Ron vanished into the coach's dark interior. ...
J.K. ROWLING Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am
-Luna Lovegood
J.K. ROWLING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J...
GARY OLDMAN I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.
MICHAEL GAMBON Draco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (Ha...
J.K. ROWLING LDraco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (H...
J.K. ROWLING Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
J.K. ROWLING We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's wh...
J.K. ROWLING We are delighted to announce that worldwide sales for the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling have ...
CHRISTOPHER LITTLE Don’t get smart - you two are in a heap of trouble!” snarled Anderson. “Names!”
“Name...
J.K. ROWLING Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'H...
CASSANDRA CLARE Harry Potter mustn't be angry... Dobby hoped... if Harry Potter thought his friends had forgotten hi...
J.K. ROWLING Magic isn't done; it's only just begun!
NICK NEWBERRY And again Harry understood without having to think. It did not matter about bringing them back, for ...
J.K. ROWLING I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books t...
HALEY JOEL OSMENT Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby do...
J.K. ROWLING I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' f...
LEV GROSSMAN The long game was ended, the Snitch has been caught, it was time to leave the air....
J.K. ROWLING We've never really had someone of her magnitude before, ... The crowd outdoes what we drew for Harry...
TOM WILLIAMS There was never any hesitation. We never had any doubt about his credibility.
DAVID B. ANDERS Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
J.K. ROWLING Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the mis...
J.K. ROWLING For in dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own. -Albus Dubledore (Harry Potter and the pri...
J.K. ROWLING Gracie has quite the imagination. She loves Harry Potter and she told me that she's pretending that ...
CHERYL MARENGO The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomeno...
ELVIS MITCHELL He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
J.K. ROWLING Killing rips the soul apart.
J.K. ROWLING It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.
J.K. ROWLING Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications ...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah,” said Ron, “and lucky Harry doesn’t lose his head in a crisis — ‘there’s no wood,�...
J.K. ROWLING But Death was cunning.
J.K. ROWLING Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...
BORIS JOHNSON Mi ero troppo affezionato a te" spiegò Silente con semplicità. "Tenevo più alla tua felicità che...
J.K. ROWLING Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.
J.K. ROWLING Wenn wir träumen, betreten wir eine Welt, die ganz und gar uns gehört. <3
J.K. ROWLING I just take the train from platform nine and three-quarters," - Harry Potter
J.K. ROWLING NO!”
The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor...
J.K. ROWLING You'll stay with me? Until the very end, said James. They won't be able to see you? asked Harry. We ...
J.K. ROWLING [ASHBURN, Va. Aug 27, 2005 ? LaVar Arrington raised his left arm to reveal two small streaks of brig...
LAVAR ARRINGTON Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
J.K. ROWLING Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
KENNETH BRANAGH Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
RUPERT GRINT Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
EMMA WATSON Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
JARVIS COCKER When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
FIONA SHAW By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones ...
J.K. ROWLING Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
HARRY POTTER How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?
J.K. ROWLING 'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's t...
KATE WINSLET Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both infl...
J.K. ROWLING The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer wr...
ROBERT GALBRAITH For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
PHILIPPA GREGORY I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her im...
SHERYL SANDBERG Fats and Andrew were perhaps equally aware that the admiration in their relationship flowed mostly f...
J.K. ROWLING Dobby non può permettere che Harry Potter si perde il suo rosso!
J.K. ROWLING E' strano, ma quando si ha paura di qualcosa, e si darebbe tutto per rallentare il tempo, quest'ulti...
J.K. ROWLING Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you hom...
J.K. ROWLING Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
J.K. ROWLING Hasn't your experience with the Time-Turner taught you anything, Harry? The consequences of our acti...
J.K. ROWLING You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ...
J.K. ROWLING How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps a...
HAROLD BLOOM I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potte...
J.K. ROWLING The owls are gathering; find out why soon.
J.K. ROWLING He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’...
J.K. ROWLING Get up, you useless lump, get up!
J.K. ROWLING No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.
J.K. ROWLING It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream.
This, thought Harry, was surely ...
J.K. ROWLING Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
ARTHUR LEVINE Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
DANIEL RADCLIFFE There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a forc...
J.K. ROWLING 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared in...
GARY ROSS Three independent bystanders said Marcus never had a gun in his hand. Marcus admits that those three...
LAWRENCE WOODWARD You’re mental,” said George, trying to push it back at Harry.
“No, I’m not,” said Har...
FRED AND GEORGE WEASLEY Hey, look — Harry’s got a Weasley sweater, too!”

Fred and George were wearing blue ...
J.K. ROWLING Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe th...
FRED AND GEORGE WEASLEY Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
HARRY POTTER Harry dreamed he was back in the DA room. Cho was accusing him of luring her there under false prete...
J.K. ROWLING Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters,' said Sirius with a wry smile.
J.K. ROWLING Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?'

'Yes,' said Harry.

'You ca...
J.K. ROWLING I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they...
JODI PICOULT The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl...
PAUL BLOOM Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his grandmother had never let him near o...
J.K. ROWLING [Dale has created some 200 voices for the series, including 96 for the just-released] Harry Potter a...
RANDOM HOUSE Harry Potter set Dobby free!" "Least I could do, Dobby", said Harry, grinning. "Just promise never t...
J.K. ROWLING I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because the...
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MARCUS AURELIUS Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air condi...
STANLEY MARCUS I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the ...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are ...
MARCUS LEMONIS I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn&...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is go...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of...
GREIL MARCUS Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...
MARCUS AURELIUS The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A stren...
MARCUS BUCKINGHAM These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lon...
MARCUS LUTTRELL Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves w...
MARCUS GARVEY I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things t...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain...
MARCUS BUCKINGHAM Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUS When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without root...
MARCUS GARVEY Anger cannot be dishonest.
MARCUS AURELIUS There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
MARCUS GARVEY There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself ...
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