Harry Potter Mandrake Quotes

#1. The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball ... I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

Frank Zappa

#2. I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#3. No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You don't look at someone and say, "You can make my life better." You look at someone and say, " I can make your life better." Be a blessing, not a burden.

Penelope Douglas

#4. He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.

Evan S. Connell

#5. I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform.

Barack Obama

#6. And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

Stanislaw Lem

#7. Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt