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Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?â€ asked Scrimgeour. â€œNo, Iâ€™m not,â€ retorted Hermione. â€œIâ€™m hoping to do some good… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad… — Richard Dawkins
You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I… — Oscar Wilde
He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way heâ€™d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with… — Hunter S. Thompson
Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him… — Adlai E. Stevenson
Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very… — Norton Juster
I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been. — Robert Frost
look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know,… — Bob Dylan
Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would. — Langston Hughes
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin. — Voltaire
Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke. "Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice… — Lewis Carroll
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. — Henry Ford
Touch and away, Jack?â€™ asked Stephen. â€˜Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?â€™… — Patrick O'Brian
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else,… — Kurt Vonnegut
It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all… — Stephen King
Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his… — Lynne Truss
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate… — Garrison Keillor
She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer. — Kurt Vonnegut

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