J. K. Rowling Quotes

Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.

All the fatt's in the fire.

The whole world's on fire.

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

They are spinning and people are dying.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of 'Fire!'.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.

We’re burning,” Sadie pointed out helpfully. “Noticed!” I yelled back.

Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.

Try not to wake up on fire.

Streets flooded. Please advise.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

Many things can happen very quickly in times of crisis.

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

It's here somewhere," I assured him. "Please tell me you haven't lost it already." "We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.

Everything went great right up to the explosion.

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.