Privet Quotes

#1. The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Somehow, the knowledge that he would rather be here and facing a dragon than back on Privet Drive with Dudley was good to know; it made him feel slightly calmer.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Every hero must return home. Starks to Winterfell. Harry to Privet Drive. Luke Skywalker to Tattoine. Katniss to District twelve. The fun is in seeing how they return.

Pierce Brown

#4. Some things die after they born, others born after they die.
myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths ...

Joseph Campbell

#5. He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean - privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his rooms through the winter instead, weeping and dreaming.

William H Gass

#6. The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

Douglas Adams

#7. Never throw the letter Q into a privet bush.

Douglas Adams

#8. Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

J.K. Rowling

#9. The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet is the smell of summer for me," I say to Catherine.
"Yes, Mom." she says, "I know, Your memories are my memories now.

Abigail Thomas

#10. As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

Joshua Foer

#11. Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

Lou Reed

#12. Woe to him, ... who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Joshua Lederberg

#14. Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Joey Comeau

#15. Say what you know.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.

Kristin Kimball

#17. No man his the master of his fate.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Arthur Alfred Lynch

#19. He's a he. I mean he's a guy. He's your mate. Oh my God you're gay!" Aleks exclaimed. Liam slapped himself on the forehead.

Alanea Alder

#20. I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

Mickey Spillane

#21. You know the legend, lady, but you don't know the man. And damn if I'm not tempted to introduce you to the man.

Lorraine Heath