Professors Quotes

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Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She â€“ er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I will not descend among professors and capitalists. — Walt Whitman
Well, sir, if things are real, theyâ€™re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say. — C.S. Lewis
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in… — Herman Melville
A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in… — Anne Fadiman
We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh — James Joyce
What a gulf between impression and expression! Thatâ€™s our ironic fateâ€”to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)… — Aldous Huxley
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes." "You called her a liar?" "Yes." "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or… — Michael Ende
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered… — Orson Scott Card
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two were busy explaining… — Douglas Adams
I can't give a Professor love! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffleâ€” Flint alongside her â€”poke him in the eye, Angelina â€”it was a joke, professor,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and youâ€™re surprised to find savages? Where arenâ€™t there… — Jules Verne
Our Headmaster is taking a short break," said Professor McGonagall, pointing at the Snape-shaped hole in the window. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
So,â€ sneered Fudge, recovering himself, â€œyou intend to take on Dawlish, Shacklebolt, Dolores, and myself single-handed, do you, Dumbledore?â€ â€œMerlinâ€™s beard, no,â€ said Dumbledore, smiling.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. — Michael Gruber

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