Quotes About Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone

#1. She wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.

Melissa Anelli

#2. How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.

Harold Bloom

#3. I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

Russell Crowe

#4. Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

Douglas Adams

#5. You determine how far you go in life, nobody else.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#6. Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.

Beau Taplin

#7. Donald crouched down, purple commas punctuating his vision, his windpipe feeling as if someone had shoved a flue-brush down it.

Lissa Evans

#8. She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Rebecca West

#9. Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me, said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Brandt certainly didn't see what the big deal was. Things caught fire; it wasn't always Brandt's fault.

Abigail Roux

#11. Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

Jim Dunnigan

#12. Sometimes solutions aren't so simple; sometimes goodbye's the only way.

Linkin Park

#13. I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.

Jules Breton

#14. You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don't even get to mourn.

Jonathan Tropper

#15. I glanced over at him warily. "Don't start getting any ideas about her. The last time someone took a fancy to Kate, things went very badly for him."
"What happened?"
"He got shot."
"You shot him?"
"Well, no, but he did get shot.

Kenneth Oppel

#16. In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness ... but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

Joss Whedon

#17. I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.

Nalo Hopkinson