J. K. Rowling is a famous Author from England, he/she is 58 years old and still alive, born July 31, 1965.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative.
Our collection contains 34 quotes who is written / told by K. Rowling.
34 Famous quotes by J. K. Rowling
"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young"
"What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does"
"Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home"
"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other"
"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default"
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live"
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike"
"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared"
"If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time"
"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals"
"I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter"
"I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life"
"I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels"
"I really don't believe in magic"
"I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity"
"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them"
"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"
"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof"
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world"
"Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself"
"Failure means a stripping away of the inessential"
"Death is just life's next big adventure"
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve"
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution"
"The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you"
"The best of us must sometimes eat our words"
"Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates"
"Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools"
"Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom"
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain"
"Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with"
"Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire"
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends"
