Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahlwas a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide...
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth13 September 1916
CityCardiff, Wales
children thinking imagination
(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child so dull and blind He can no longer understand A fantasy, a fairyland! His brain becomes as soft as cheese! His powers of thinking rust and freeze! He cannot think -he only sees!
kings cheer thinking
I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!' We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.' The cheering that followed this speech went on for many minutes.
moving thinking chasing
Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
thinking feel-good feels
I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.
believe thinking firsts
Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.
simple thinking routine
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
growing-up children thinking
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
kindness thinking numbers
I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
charlie chocolate factory reverse strike time
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
charlie chocolate dreamers factory music
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
forget
Some adults forget what it was like to be a kid,'' Burton says.
british-novelist men practice preach
Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
acute attack british-novelist develop sent stunt sudden
I devised a stunt for getting myself sent back home. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop an attack of acute appendicitis.
figures literature peter professor publishers safe says
All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option,'' says Peter Hunt, children's literature professor at Cardiff University.