Half Blood Prince Film Quotes & Sayings

Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it. — Allen Wier

All of my novels are democracies. — Amos Oz

I like to take inspiration from people who do things that I could never do. — Allison Winn Scotch

It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country — Sunday Adelaja

For really it was the refinement of civilized cruelty, this spick, span, and ingenious affair of shining leather and gleaming steel, which hoisted you and tilted you and fitted reassuringly into the small of your back and cupped your head tenderly between padded cushions. It ensured for you a more complete muscular relaxation than any armchair that you could buy for your own home: but it left your tormented nerves without even the solace of a counter-irritant. In the old days the victim's attention had at least been distracted by an ache in the back, a crick in the neck, pins and needles in the legs, and the uneasy tickling of plush under the palm. But now, too efficiently suspended between heaven and earth, you were at liberty to concentrate on hell. — Jan Struther

Money may not buy love, but fighting about it will bankrupt your relationship. — Michelle Singletary

And she swept out of it with the noiseless grace of an offended princess. — Elizabeth Gaskell

In this course I have tried to reveal the mechanism of those wonderful toys - literary masterpieces. I have tried to make of you good readers who read books not for the infantile purpose of identifying oneself with the characters, and not for the adolescent purpose of learning to live, and not for the academic purpose of indulging in generalizations. I have tried to teach you to read books for the sake of their form, their visions, their art. I have tried to teach you to feel a shiver of artistic satisfaction, to share not the emotions of the people in the book but the emotions of its author - the joys and difficulties of creation. We did not talk around books, about books; we went to the center of this or that masterpiece, to the live heart of the matter. — Vladimir Nabokov

You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable. — Sharon Salzberg

The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was either through TV, music, movies or hopping in and out when I did shows. You can't just get the US through being in Miami, LA and New York. Middle America is the place to understand real America. — Dizzee Rascal

The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog. — Frederick Lenz