Rita Skeeter Quotes

As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them.
It was Rita Skeeter. She was wearing acid-green robes today; the Quick-Quotes Quill in her hand blended perfectly against them.
"Congratulations, Harry!' she said beaming at him. "I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How do you feel now about the fairness of the scoring?"
"Yeah, you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Goodbye! ~ J.K. Rowling

Listen to me. It - it doesn't make very nice reading - " "Yeah, you could say that - " " - but don't forget, Harry, this is Rita Skeeter writing. ~ J.K. Rowling

I've read worse.'
Rita Skeeter, Daily Prophet ~ Kennilworthy Whisp

Harry stooped down and saw, upon the frozen, lichen-spotted granite, the words KENDRA DUMBLEDORE and, a short way below her dates of birth and death, AND HER DAUGHTER ARIANA. There was also a quotation:

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

So Rita Skeeter and Muriel had got some of their facts right. The Dumbledore family had indeed lived here, and part of it had died here. ~ J.K. Rowling

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. ~ Rita Mae Brown

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again. ~ Rita Rudner

You're home!" she said as she rushed through the front door. "Because I have some wonderful news, and I have to - Cody, don't just throw your jacket there; hang it up on the - Astor, for God's sake, don't slam the door like that. Here, take the baby," she said to me, thrusting Lily Anne in my direction and turning away again so rapidly that I had to lurch forward to grab the baby, spilling a quarter of a cup of coffee as I did. Rita ~ Jeff Lindsay

In school they told us the president was the best man in the whole country but I knew my father was the best man in the whole country; the country didn't know it, that's all. ~ Rita Mae Brown

The fire sings to the marshmallow, and the song turns the marshmallow brown because that's what marshmallows do when they're happy. ~ Rita Leganski

Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too. ~ Rita Ora

If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so. ~ Eric Dinerstein

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic. ~ Rita Dove

Two wrongs don't make a right.
No, but three will get you back on the freeway! ~ Rita Mae Brown

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. ~ Gary Miller

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes. ~ Rita Ora

She unscrews the cap, sniffs it, and then shrugs, dumping the entire contents into the bubbling brew. "It could be marjoram, but it might be mushrooms. I had a bottle of poisonous, green ones I dried out last winter on the solstice. Oh well."

Leaning out over the cauldron, she stirs thrice counterclockwise, using the wooden spoon with a handle about as tall as she is. Then she scoops a bit and brings it to her mouth for a taste.

"No!" Jason and I scream at the same time.

She blinks at us. "What?"

"You just put something that may be poisonous in there," I say. ~ Rita J. Webb

In African American culture, class bias is the handmaiden of intraracial prejudice that privileges the near-white or light-complexioned person over the darker-hued. ~ Rita B. Dandridge

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. ~ Rita Dove

Santo Rita Meata Mater Ringo Jonah Tito Marlin Jack Latoya Janet Michael Dumbledora the Explorer! Santo Rita Meata Mater Ringo Jonah Tito Marlin Jack Latoya Janet Michael Dumbledora the Explorer! I've summoned you from the depths of Hell. Show yourself!" (Britain)
"You kolled?" (Russia)
"I wasn't calling you!" (Britain)
-Britain and Russia ~ Hidekaz Himaruya

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department? ~ Rita Hayworth

Heckle and Jeckle again ~ Rita Williams-Garcia

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective. ~ Ben Bernanke

Rita Haywood gave good face. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Your mam's up there havin' a babbie, in case you've forgotten.' Seth kept the knife steady. 'I haven't forgotten, but Pearl's been Mam's lackey from the day she could toddle, an' you ~ Rita Bradshaw

I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks. ~ Rita Wilson

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture. ~ Rita Ora

My first advice would be to read, read, read, which sounds interesting coming in a digital age, but it's so much easier to listen to a poem than it is to sit down and actually read it and to hear it in your head and that is something that every poet or aspiring poet needs to be able to do, I think to hear it in their head. ~ Rita Dove

Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying ~ Rita Rudner

Most of the American films were made in southern California, so if you were in Europe, watching those palm trees swaying in the wind with someone like Rita Hayworth gliding underneath them in a white convertible, you got all kinds of wonderfully wrong ideas about the place. ~ Charles Simic

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England. ~ Rita Mae Brown

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better. ~ Rita Rudner

Writers will happen in the best of families. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Rita could find fault with a twenty-one-gun salute in her honor. "Too noisy," she'd complain. "All that gun powdah makes me cough." Bernice, on the other hand, was overjoyed when a salesman from the cremation place informed her that her ashes would weigh about six pounds. "Thin at last!" she shrieked. ~ Jennifer Coburn

Follow your passion. Help people along the way. Work very very hard and always come prepared. ~ Rita Zahara