Quote

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

J. K. Rowling

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. K. Rowling
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 31
Author
Executive Producer
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Yate
Gloucestershire
Joanne Jo Murray
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
JK
JKR
Robert Galbraith
Joanne Rowling
Intelligence
Fate
Talent
Anyone
Never
Fates
Caprice

More quotes by J. K. Rowling

Image
Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!
J. K. Rowling
Image
Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!
J. K. Rowling
Image
It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
J. K. Rowling
Image
I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.
J. K. Rowling
Image
According to Nietzche, said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.
J. K. Rowling
Image
And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Warlock D. J. Prod of Didsbury says: “My wife used to sneer at my feeble charms, but one month into your fabulous Kwikspell course and I succeeded in turning her into a yak! Thank you, Kwikspell!
J. K. Rowling
Image
Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage.
J. K. Rowling
Image
She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared.
J. K. Rowling
Image
You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.
J. K. Rowling
Image
What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?
J. K. Rowling
Image
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Scrimgeour: It's time you learned some respect! Harry: It's time you earned it.
J. K. Rowling
Image
Where's the fun without a bit of risk?
J. K. Rowling
Image
Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?
J. K. Rowling
Image
I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.
J. K. Rowling
Image
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.
J. K. Rowling
Image
I'm dying! Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!
J. K. Rowling