Flourish And Blotts Quotes & Sayings

When we turn the Bible into an adjective and stick it in front of another loaded word, we tend to ignore or downplay the parts of the Bible that don't quite fit our preferences and presuppositions. In an attempt to simplify, we force the Bible's cacophony of voices into a single tone and turn a complicated, beautiful, and diverse holy text into a list of bullet points we can put in a manifesto or creed. More often than not, we end up more committed to what we want the Bible to say than what it actually says. — Rachel Held Evans

First blood is mine.
Last blood counts for more.
Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden — R.A. Salvatore

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it. — Mindy Kaling

I often don't feel like the person I look like. — Juliet Stevenson

I should like to take this opportunity to name you Sherlock and point out that there is no shit. — Kevin Hearne

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah. — Hugh Dancy

Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool. — Lucia Berlin

You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal! — David Bowie

This is your copy of Advanced Potion-Making, is it, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry, still breathing hard.
"You're quite sure of that, are you, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry, with a touch more defiance.
"This is the copy of Advanced Potion-Making that you purchased from Flourish and Blotts?"
"Yes," said Harry firmly.
"Then why," asked Snape, "does it have the name 'Roonil Wazlib' written inside the front cover?"
Harry's heart missed a beat. "That's my nickname," he said. — J.K. Rowling

There isn't anyone who wants to see me married more than I do. — Sheri L. Dew

If they finally move, is it because they are warm enough, or is it that they are stiff, or bored? — Lydia Davis

I'm in love with the whole world. — Vanna Bonta

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see. — Milton Resnick

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on. — W. H. Auden

From the slope of Haleakala, the Old Broad watched the activity in the channel with a two-hundred-power celestial telescope and a pair of "big eyes" binoculars that looked like stereo bazookas on precision mounts that were anchored into a ton of concrete. — Christopher Moore

The food in the hostel mess is worst of a kind. The grief in my words reach easily to those who have "been there and done that" Chapatti in the meal is either so uncooked or overly cooked and you can only expect dal in the ocean of water when you are ready to swim. — Parul Wadhwa