Roald Dahl Quotes

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

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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As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.

Jimmy Breslin

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Images and music are very connected.

St. Lucia

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The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

Robert Boyle

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Is there going to be a peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime.

Michael T. Flynn

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Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

Mo Rocca

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My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.

Louise Erdrich

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I live in a cottage and volunteer in the village shop.

Lisanne Falk

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I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

Jason Momoa

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I do my best; I go onto the pitch and I play to the best of my ability.

Diego Costa

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'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

Brendan Fletcher

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Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

Phyllis Logan

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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Peace Pilgrim

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