J. K. Rowling Quotes

...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, it makes no sound.

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone. There were too many people talking..

My neighbors are quiet. I am not. I don't know if they're dead or alive.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

The loudest noise in the world is silence.

People aren't hearing all the music.

We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

If no one heard your sounds then you did not really make them.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.