Roald Dahl Quotes

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.

Roald Dahl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990

Topics

LifeSimpleThinkingRoutineSalary

I hold religious tendencies, but I'm not devout by any means.

Anderson East

HoldReligiousMeansAnyDevout

Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion.

Angela Merkel

OpinionSaidTrueIslamPresident

It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.

John Robinson

OpportunityBeachFunCrazyWorld

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

Amy Ray

WorkDayNightLateMoreProductive

Personal brand equity erodes much faster than corporate brand equity.

John Quelch

BrandPersonalEquityCorporateThan

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Alva Myrdal

MenPeaceAmbitionPresentStriving

Cows and other ruminants are worse polluters than all of the transportation in the world, so all of us who try to cut down our carbon footprint by lessening our transportation would do far better by just consuming less beef.

Stephen J. Dubner

WorldBetterTransportationDownTry

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

Stephan Jenkins

BelieveCardsBallsCrystalNeed

I've always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes.

Trixie Mattel

MusicArmyDoingSaidPayJokes

Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right.

Robert E. Lee

YouSayMeanRightTakeJust

The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

Ruth Rendell

PeopleYouYoungMoreYoung People

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

Rosie O'Donnell

StupidWeekYouSayPointGoing

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