Potter Quotations

My parents sent me from Venezuela to the Convent of Our Lady, a boarding school in Hastings, which was horrible - like Harry Potter without the magic. Sometimes we went into town, and if we were caught chewing gum in our uniform, members of the public would take down our names and report us to the school.

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

I only discovered the 'Harry Potter' series in my tenth standard. I dived right into it, often reading non-stop through the day and night. It was the morning after one such readathon when I was to appear for a Chemistry exam. Spending my night with the third edition of Harry Potter didn't help much, and I fared poorly.

I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down from the Midlands for the last night of the School Proms. We played some pieces from the Harry Potter films, and the violin parts were really hard.

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

I read fantasy books like the Harry Potter books, 'Twilight,' also biographies, and I like to read about people who have been through stuff like wars or lost their families - real life stuff, you know? I like to read about their experiences and how they coped with that.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening.

The Potter franchise is just irresistible to moviegoers. The combination of the Potter books and the love audiences have for the movies conspired a big opening weekend.

We're extremely pleased with the out-of-the-gate success of the DVD release of 'Goblet of Fire'. We knew fans really connected with this installment in the Harry Potter series, and that continued loyalty to the franchise has carried over to these phenomenal DVD sales figures.

We know how passionate the Harry Potter fans are and we wanted to give them something new and exciting to expand their reading experience. While old fans will love the online activities and interactive features, readers new to the series can be introduced into the magical world of Harry Potter.

On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66.

My grandmother would give me a beautiful book each year. I especially loved the Beatrix Potter books. They were very detailed. And I promised myself that was what I'd do. I also loved the big words she used. I was excited because I knew what they meant from the context. I put a few big words in for just that reason.

My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London.

Next to the Bible, this has no competition. The great thing about the Harry Potter books is that it appeals to both children and adults, and 50 percent of its readers are adults.

Potter threw a ton of innings last year, but we've got four, five guys that are pretty good. The consistency has been great because we don't have a No. 1. We haven't had a complete game yet and I don't know if we'll have one all year.

One of the really special things about the Potters Guild is that we are all very solitary artists. But when we have problems finding a new glaze or technique, we share it with each other. It's kind of like being in a university or school setting. The club certainly serves a social and educational function. We have a wonderful energy that a solitary potter often loses and finds it hard to keep.

I had it described to me once by a young man who often comes into the library as a cross between Harry Potter and the X-Men. So I thought that was a great description. It's an excellent book, and the kids really love it, and they don't want me to stop.

I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out.

I can't really go without being noticed. I'll keep my head a bit lower than usual. I've got to keep my head out of trouble, because if it goes on, it would be 'Harry Potter boy this, Harry Potter boy that.'

For Mr. Potter to still claim ? with a straight face ? that as the license holder he still did nothing wrong is laughable, ... He put someone in charge he could not trust and gee, it was not his fault. That's bull.

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Harry Potter represents a much larger wave of cultural revolution that we're all immersed in, and I believe it's a spiritual revolution as well - a negative spiritual revolution.

Harry Potter is showing that people still want to go to the movies, but still they need a good reason to go.

Harry Potter changed everything. It's this juggernaut that is bigger than anything else out there, and it forced all of us to take notice of children's books.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be the best selling pre-order book in publishing history.

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

I think it's an enormous roll of the dice for AOL Time Warner. The two movies were developed independently. The 'Lord of the Rings' was in development for some time. As that was happening, Warner Brothers won the Harry Potter movie, and because that was such a hot property they wanted to move ahead as quickly as possible.

Over $500 million last year was spent on Harry Potter toys and this year is expected to be even bigger.

Record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children's book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,

We are tremendously pleased with the opening weekend results for 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' in both IMAX and conventional theatres. The unique experience that IMAX theatres offer moviegoers is generating incremental revenue for our event films, proven by this giant record-setting opening weekend and advance ticket sales at IMAX theatres. We look forward to continued success as we enter the holiday season.

We are thrilled with the unprecedented box office performance of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in IMAX theatres. The IMAX release helped contribute to the overall excitement surrounding the Harry Potter campaign as well as the theatrical success of the film.

We are delighted to announce that worldwide sales for the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling have now exceeded 300 million copies.

We released the fourth book at midnight and we also had a slumber party for the kids and parents at our stores. We could be doing something along those lines for the new Harry Potter book release.

The excitement generated by 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' boosted our traffic both in stores and online.

There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are Christian symbols in the series, but the author misappropriates them, mutates them, and integrates them into a supposedly larger and broader system where evil symbols are dominant.

You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.

We all love to read, and sometimes, everyone in the family reads the same book so we can talk about it. Stacy, Sarah and I all read the new Harry Potter book together the day it came out. We each had our own copy, and we all stayed up late to finish it.

We've never really had someone of her magnitude before, ... The crowd outdoes what we drew for Harry Potter by far.

We had to go with a replacement goalie again tonight. Dan Vasquez is still hurt but Potter did a great job for us.

To have such a strong Thanksgiving and the second-best ever business in what has overall been a down year is pretty impressive. Thank goodness for Harry Potter . It has reinvigorated a lot of people to go to the movies.

As the audience has gotten older in time, faithful readers of the Potter books will remain faithful to the movies,

Disney is hoping to have a Harry Potter franchise out of this.

There was a confident assessment of prospects for FY06, and there has been heavy investment in the future pipeline of books, but given the hurdle of Harry Potter sales in the prior year, growth is likely to be modest.

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

SAN FRANCISCO-September 7, 2005-Apple today announced that the entire Harry Potter audiobook series is now available exclusively on the iTunes Music Store, the world's number one online music service. For the first time ever, every audiobook in the series, including the latest release,

A full-time student with no siblings or parents who might be affected financially by his premature death, Harry Potter doesn't have a need for life insurance.

You might think of it as Harry Potter . You don't necessarily have to see the first one to enjoy the second one. The great thing that Carlton and Damon have done in writing this story line is that it reaches back into season one, looks at the current season and goes forward into the future.

There were lines around the block for the latest book, The Half-Blood Prince. I expect no different for this Harry Potter movie.

The release of the first Harry Potter film on November 16 will, we believe, trigger a dramatic increase in sales as a new audience is introduced to the books,

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. - 'The Hungarian Horntail,' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

It's a well-designed and comprehensive site that has won the approval of Potter fans everywhere.

It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.

I've got to keep my head out of trouble, because if it goes on, it would be 'Harry Potter boy this, Harry Potter boy that.'

I want to give fans the chance to get on the train right at the beginning. I want them to be able to share in any success that may come along. So I'll endorse a site to be the official fan site - for the entire series it could be something very big for them. Just look at the fan sites of Harry Potter and other fantasy books.

They look very promising: Shorter, accessible, they're geared to readers a little younger than the core Harry Potter crowd.

In a way, ... growing up like this with Harry makes it easier to act in each of the films, because I've been through all the stuff that he's going through, like the hormones, relatively recently. So it's quite fresh in my mind. And then I suppose it's been made easier by the fact I've been playing Harry Potter since I was 12. You get to know the character so well that it makes it easier to act in the long run.

In 2002 we didn't have a new book, but our book sales still came in at $82 million, about 4 percent of our revenue on the back of the Harry Potter movies. With this new book, we expect a big jump in sales and revenue.

I probably wouldn't mind just doing the Harry Potter movies and then making a career of conventions,

I just met the director for the fifth Harry Potter and they are all really positive about things,

Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s - 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Home Alone,' etc. - has acquired rights to 'The Cypress House' and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct.

If Hollywood were to go the way of simultaneous release, fewer Harry Potter s would get made.

I don't see us beating last year. We don't have a Star Wars or Harry Potter , and that's $700 million right there. That's a big chunk to make up.

I don't think they're looking to Harry Potter to rescue this year. It's a long term issue for them, it's a launching of franchise.

You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harry Potter' and have it be about Harriett Potter because nobody would read it; people only want to read an adventure story if it's about a boy,' and I thought, 'I don't think that's true.'

This is a great day for the club. To sign someone with as much experience as a player and a coach as Mick Potter is a great testament to the project we have here.

The first flute I ever had was a Henry Potter wooden 5-keyed flute.

Among other things, we had to quickly change all of the places 'Harry Potter IV' appeared on our Web site. It sounds easy, but there's a lot involved in making that happen.

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: / And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

The legal authority's there if you want to use it, I mean as a practical matter, it would require bonds and financing and it would be beyond the means of Potter County and most counties because it would be so expensive.