I think so, ' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

There will always be good and bad in every community.

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.