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Roald Dahl Quotes

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Children You Know Never Delight Get

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

Truth Great Lie Truth Is Enemy Myth

I'm a big fan of the laceless Converse for travel, with cute jeans, and throw on a little jacket, and you look presentable.

Cute Travel You Look Jacket Jeans

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Soren Kierkegaard

Game Feel Chess Opponent Cannot

I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

Steven Van Zandt

Life Time Political Artist First

Only when the oil and gas industry has taken full account of, and responsibility for, the impacts of exploring for and extracting fossil fuels can we engage in a serious and worthy evaluation of whether fracking can indeed provide a bridge to a sustainable energy future.

Future Responsibility Bridge Energy

'Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again.

Think You Unique Touch Diamond Film

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Work Good I Am You Done My Own

I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when I was very young. And as I got older, I became a Charlie Chaplin fan, and I love Buster Keaton.

Love Parents Me Young Movies Up

Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.

Jason Calacanis

Small Search Worth You Mean Company

I'm in this new Showtime series called 'Ray Donovan.' I play this guy Stu Feldman who runs Paramount Pictures, so the total opposite to this character.

Character Pictures Play New Guy Who

As me, I couldn't love my cohorts P.J. Byrne and David Faustino more. I just adore them, and any opportunity to be in a room with them is just a kick in the pants; I love it.

Love Opportunity Me More Pants Room

Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. By keeping the mass of those spacebots low, we could more easily accelerate them.

Travel Cell Phone Phone Ahead Solar

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