Quotes About Avada

#1. Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Unforgivable Curses are the three most powerful and sinister spells known to the wizarding world, and are tools of the Dark Arts. They were first classified as "Unforgivable" in 1717. They are the Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra, the Cruciatus Curse, Crucio, and the Imperius Curse, Imperio.

George Duckett

#3. Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
Avada Kedavra!

J.K. Rowling

#4. Did they teach you how to pronounce 'Avada Kedavra' when you bought it?" I ask. Victor just stares at me. Probably because he's never read any of the Harry Potter books.

Jenny Lawson

#5. Monkey. I went along for the ride because I'd got some very safe money on him not doing it, and didn't want him coming back with fake evidence.

Douglas Adams

#6. God, A Poem
'I didn't exist at Creation,
I didn't exist at the Flood,
And I won't be around for Salvation
To sort out the sheep from the cud-
'Or whatever the phrase is. The fact is
In soteriological terms
I'm a crude existential malpractice
And you are a diet of worms

James Fenton

#7. I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

Fred Melamed

#8. I was once adored too.

William Shakespeare

#9. The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Rogers Hornsby

#11. The thing about dreams, though, is they usually sound crazy to everyone but you. All it takes is one other person to buy into them to keep you going.

Lopez Lomong

#12. I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

Ernest Gaines

#13. Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

Lord Kelvin

#14. I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.

Oona Chaplin

#15. It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

John Keats

#16. My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

Kathy Bates

#17. Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Clarence Darrow