J. K. Rowling Quotes

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

You may be gone but you're never over.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

Sometimes, something special doesn't live forever. But it can always be forever as long as the fans keep it going.

Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.

Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story.

This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a stain: it's going to take a whole lot to get that out, and that's how I'm going to leave my stain on this world.

A big part of the reason that I make music is that I want to be a part of people's memories - you're there; you're present in someone's life.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

I want to set an example that will never be forgotten.

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.

Legacy is greater than currency.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.