Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
Quote by J. K. Rowling
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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J. K. Rowling Quotes
- The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
- I think you're working and learning until you die.
- However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
- I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
- I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
- The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
- 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
- The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
- The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Best Quotes
- The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.
- Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
- With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
- Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
- We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
- I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
- The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.