Roald Dahl Quotes

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

Roald Dahl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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TodayPainHappyDoctorFaceYou

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

Joe Paterno

SoulPeopleCoachingEasySayTeach

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Jesus Christ

LoveFatherMeLovedYou

I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

Jessica Clark

WorkHopeI AmMeInterestingMore

If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.

John Burnside

NatureHomeWayQuestionMustOnly

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Robert Smith

PeopleThinkBandOnlyCureGoth

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Amber Frey

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Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

Sturgill Simpson

CuriousDoneAnythingSomethingGet

Through a mix of market forces and regulation, we've brought civilization to the electronic provinces.

Steven Levy

CivilizationThroughMarketForces

Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I was going to be from one day to the next.

Molly Sims

DayBeginningUncertaintyCareer

I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy and not hide it, you see.

Michael Leunig

ThinkYouArtistHideKnowSee

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Jean de la Bruyere

WomanManBetterOthersSecretOwn

I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it.

Jonathan Levine

LifeLiveHopePeopleLookingYear

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