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Very Quotes by Roald Dahl
- Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
- I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have…
- I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very…
- 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…
- All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and…
- All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
- The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on…
- She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she…
- There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that…
- When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
- ...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks,…
- There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and…
- The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.
- I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so…
More Very Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong