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Roald Dahl Quotes

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Freedom Fool Person Become Only His

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

People Better Movies Always Idea

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

Me Would Interested Technique Very

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Science People Look Back Now Will

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Communication Say More Analysis Last

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

People Said Always Voices Cartoons

Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.

Singing Song Thinking You Inside

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

Good Smart People Think Meet Talk

You have different schemes for different teams. Some teams blitz a lot, and some teams drop eight in coverage.

Rolando McClain

You Drop Different Eight Some Blitz

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Mary Harris Jones

Education Journey Destination Like

It feels good to be productive.

Good Productive Feels

I watched my parents act as completely equal partners in their relationship, and as a son to a woman I respect immensely, I never thought of gender inequality as a child.

Son Relationship Respect Woman Child

I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.

Mother Me Clothes Look She Always

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