J. K. Rowling Quotes

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

J. K. Rowling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 31, 1965

Topics

WorkFailureMyselfMeEnergyWhy

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

Jill Lepore

NatureCharacterActionAmericanOut

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

Jerry Garcia

MusicPeopleBetterTryingNow

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Andrew Cuomo

FearFatherSonDeathDrivingHard

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

John Locke

HappyMindWorldBetterShortWish

The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.

John Tyler

LifeBestMountainStormWarBattle

I want to be the Denzel of acting and the Michael Jackson of music.

Trevor Jackson

MusicActingWantMichael Jackson

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

Tony Campolo

FaceThinkPoliticalProblemMedia

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

Robert Downey, Jr.

ParentYouNewKnowEvenReally

I've gone through literally over 30 years of struggle with weight and food and body image... and I'm like, 'Wait a minute.'

Lisa Lampanelli

FoodStruggleWaitBodyOverImage

Every guy I know has some sort of freak injury in their body.

Chris Evans

BodyKnowFreakGuyInjurySome

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

EducationBestOpportunitiesRich

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

Ryan Phillippe

BrotherThreeAlwaysInterested

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