Scrumdiddlyumptious Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Take a bite and I am positive you will be shouting out oh how scrumdiddlyumptious this wonderveg is!

Roald Dahl

#3. Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

William Beveridge

#4. All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

Jim Henson

#5. I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

Fan Bingbing

#6. Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.

Tom Robbins

#7. Across much of the developing world, by the time she is 12, a girl is tending house, cooking, cleaning. She eats what's left after the men and boys have eaten; she is less likely to be vaccinated, to see a doctor, to attend school.

Nancy Gibbs

#8. To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Garson Kanin

#10. The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.

William James