My first words, as I was being born I looked up at my mother and said, "that's the last time I'm going up one of those!"
I called JK up and said, "Look, do you mind, I can't say 'Harry pocketed-ed it'. Would it be okay if I said 'Harry put it in his pocket'?" There was a big pause at the end of the line, then she said, "No" in her best witch's voice. I could hear her smile as she said it.
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You are who you are when nobody's watching.
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
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Sometimes, you must dangle your feet in the water to attract the sharks.
You rarely find that kidnap victims have planned for their own disappearance.
Look for what's there, not what you want to be there.
For 20 years, I sought only this day. Nothing else existed... until I saw you. Then everything changed. I fell in love with you Evey. And to think I no longer believed I could.
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
V in V for Vendetta
11Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.
V in V for Vendetta
9If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.
Alice: "How long is forever?"
White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
Mad Hatter: "Have I gone Mad?"
Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."
Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are."
I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.
I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.
Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.
Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
Gandalf in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey
22If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?
Tauriel in The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies
29If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
I'm not a hero, or a warrior... not even a burglar.
Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey
15Go back to your books, your fireplace. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more of us valued home above gold, it would be a merrier world.
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13Lord Melchett: "Ah, Blackadder, talking to yourself, I see."
Blackadder: "Yes, it's the only way I can be sure of intelligent conversation."
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Mrs M, if we were the last three humans on earth, I would be trying to start a family with Baldrick.
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They do say, Mrs M, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork into your head.
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Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
Baldrick, believe me, eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me - and THIS pencil.
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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.
I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.
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When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, "After all this time?" And I will say: "Always."
Alan Rickman (Actor of Severus Snape)
19A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.
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22Kim Jong-un is very isolated in his own country. He's the only obese person in North Korea.
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