Reading Roald Dahl Quotes

#1. I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.

Frank Lampard

#2. Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings

Debbie Macomber

#3. So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

Roald Dahl

#4. You can push someone's button over and over again to get what you want, but there comes a point when your finger slips and you finally hit the whrong one.

Alexandra Bracken

#5. I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

Roald Dahl

#6. At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

Omar Dorsey

#7. I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.

Alber Elbaz

#8. He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

Ben E. King

#9. I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.'
Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud.
'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

Roald Dahl

#10. Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

#11. Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#12. An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.

Timothy Noah

#13. I'm wondering what to read next.

Roald Dahl

#14. One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#15. It was pleasant to take a hot drink up to her room and have it beside her as she sat in her silent room reading in the empty house in the afternoons. The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

Roald Dahl

#16. Feedback is important to people. We all want to know how well we're doing. That's why it is essential for an effective performance review system to provide ongoing feedback.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#17. I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.

Nnedi Okorafor

#18. I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

Roald Dahl

#19. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Roald Dahl

#20. So for a period of time each day, try to sit, without moving, without expecting anything, as if you were in your last moment. Moment after moment you feel your last instant. In each inhalation and each exhalation there are countless instants of time. Your intention is to live in each instant.

Shunryu Suzuki

#21. I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard.

Jennifer Lopez

#22. What sort of a book would you like to read next? she asked.

Roald Dahl

#23. Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life

Fela Kuti

#24. All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Roald Dahl

#25. But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It's right here. You've just finished reading it.

Roald Dahl

#26. But Teatime was okay. True, after a few minutes talking to him your eyes began to water and you felt you needed to scrub your skin even on the inside, but no one was perfect, were they?

Terry Pratchett

#27. Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

Reince Priebus

#28. I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'

George Lucas