#po

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#fame #fate #harry-potter #innocence #secret

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fiction #obliged #possibilities #stick #stranger

No one has ever become poor by giving. ↗

— Anne Frank

#ever #giving #poor

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all. ↗

— Allison Williams

#i #imagine #into #looking #musical

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people. ↗

— James Woods

#because #destroy #gonna #i #job

There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#difference #good #lot #minds #musicians

We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons. ↗

— Mohammed Aldouri

#biological weapons #chemical #such #weapons

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#difference #his #hypocrite #lies #other

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#change #especially #exactly #fashion #fit

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way. ↗

— Mary Austin

#importance #men #other #see #seeing