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Roald Dahl Quotes

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Roald Dahl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

School Memory Me Trying Back Stairs

Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.

Joel Fuhrman

Control Loss Trying Weight Loss Eat

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Amity Gaige

Work Time School Writing More Write

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

Stephen Hawking

Black Glow Body Hot Difficult Low

In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.

Tristram Stuart

Food Government World Energy Farmers

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Kindness Greatness View Person True

When my company does a good job, we make people happy. They laugh, they smile, they have a good time - that's what we do for a living. Any business doing that is making a noble effort.

Jon Taffer

Smile Good Business Time Job Effort

I'm not an everyday fragrance person usually. I wouldn't put fragrance on before dropping off my kids or going to the gym.

Christy Turlington

Gym Fragrance Person Everyday Going

Paris is wild; it's decadent... it's so many things.

Brian Azzarello

Paris Wild Things Many Decadent

I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

Bryan Batt

Life People Thought Lonely Doing

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

Ashlee Simpson

I Am Confident Feel Look Way Always

My brother, who's ten years younger than me, worked with me in the studio when he was very young. He's a guitar player and does programming as well. To have the working and personal relationship coincide has been very natural.

Atticus Ross

Relationship Brother Me Guitar Young

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

Sebastian Bach

Style Back Old Years Going Italian