Roald Dahl Quotes

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

Roald Dahl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

Maxine Peake

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Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

John Howard

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A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

Matthew Fox

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And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.

John Sayles

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I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

Mike Tyson

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I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.

Monica Bellucci

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A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.

Jon Jones

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I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.

Dhani Harrison

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Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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Oh, I was some efficiency expert. On my first day, I couldn't find my own office in Hartford and wound up in the Post Office.

Peter Falk

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I'm a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.

Sean Young

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As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

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