Ollivander Book Quotes & Sayings

Empty vessels make the most noise. It is true. The best adventurers and climbers, and the most successful people I know in life, are all great listeners, and they don't talk too much. — Bear Grylls

We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term. — Thomas Perez

We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow. — Eduardo Galeano

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind — Robert Oxton Bolton

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done. — Damien Hirst

Clever women are hard to intimidate. — Jeffrey Perren

Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body's frailties and conflicts and general revolt, and then one day your body is not separate any more. You've in a sense become the piano or the dance or the word or the prayer. The prayer is in your heart. The prayer is your heart. — Heather King

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive ... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think. — Noel Gallagher

The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless - one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan's will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite's will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is - well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads. — G.K. Chesterton

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. — Ansel Adams

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. — Phil Spector