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"How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U — M —” “No, it isn’t,” said Hermione. “And ‘augury’ doesn’t begin O — R — G either."
"Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived."
"Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?"
"My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important."
"I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference."
"For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant."
"In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought."
"None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death."
"The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was."
"Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!"
"I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it."
"I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know."
"Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar."
""I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.""
"It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!"
"I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me."
"I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up."
""Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you.""
"The manager could not even talk to us at the interval. He said we were bad."
"That was American Recordings. I said, I like the name, maybe it'd be OK. So I said, I'd like to meet the guy [Rick Rubin ].I'd like for him to tell me what he can do with me that they're not doing now."
