Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a terra, completamente assorta nelle meravigliose avventure di Pip e della vecchia signorina Havisham con la sua casa piena di ragnatele, persa nell'incantesimo che Dickens, il grande inventore di storie, aveva saputo creare.


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-Harry ...
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ROALD DAHL
A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW...
ROALD DAHL
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around...
ROALD DAHL
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do i...
ROALD DAHL
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Here it is,' Nigel said.
Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.'...
ROALD DAHL
I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.
ROALD DAHL
Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the wh...
ROALD DAHL
No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled
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This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book ...
ROALD DAHL
You chose books. I chose looks.
ROALD DAHL
What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone...
ROALD DAHL
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
ROALD DAHL
I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita ...
ROALD DAHL
A little magic can take you a long way.
ROALD DAHL
Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Cha...
ROALD DAHL
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone?
She'd found it easy, being pretty
To hitch a ride ...
ROALD DAHL
Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds.
My Prince! She thought. He chops off heads!
How cou...
ROALD DAHL
There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plan...
ROALD DAHL
Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my...
ROALD DAHL
Giants isn't eating each other either, the BFG said. Nor is giants killing each other. Giants is not...
ROALD DAHL
But where, you might ask, is this book that the BFG wrote? It’s right here. You’ve just finished...
ROALD DAHL
Sophie took the book out of his hand. ‘Nicholas Nickleby,’ she read aloud. ‘By Dahl’s Chicke...
ROALD DAHL
Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human be...
ROALD DAHL
. . . I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!
ROALD DAHL
Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants
ROALD DAHL
I is not understanding human beans at all,’ the BFG said. ‘You is a human bean and you is saying...
ROALD DAHL
Sometimes, on a very clear night,’ the BFG said, ‘and if I is swiggling my ears in the right dir...
ROALD DAHL
So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is...
ROALD DAHL
let your love out
ROALD DAHL
Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
ROALD DAHL
Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who...
ROALD DAHL
Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to ...
ROALD DAHL
You is getting nosier than a parker.
ROALD DAHL
Two wrongs don't make a right.
ROALD DAHL
I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words ...
ROALD DAHL
The maid screamed.
The Queen gasped.
Sophie waved.
ROALD DAHL
Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left inste...
ROALD DAHL
Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dang...
ROALD DAHL
Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.
ROALD DAHL
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the nig...
ROALD DAHL
Yesterday," he said, "we was not believing in giants, was we? Today we is not believing in snozzcumb...
ROALD DAHL
You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL
Good day, Sir.
ROALD DAHL
There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met...
ROALD DAHL
Adventure is just bad planning.
ROALD AMUNDSEN
Let's go skiing right now!
ROALD AMUNDSEN
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels th...
ROALD AMUNDSEN
So we arrived, and planted our flag at the geographical South Pole. Thanks be to God!
ROALD AMUNDSEN
I'm excited about this year and I'm looking forward to competing on the Nationwide Tour. I'm ready t...
ANDREW DAHL
It means a lot to me to go undefeated. There were a lot of tough wrestlers here (like Riley). I did ...
ANDREW DAHL
It's going to be a good match. ... The way I look at it, it's just another kid to wrestle. Don't wor...
ANDREW DAHL
When he shot in overtime and got that nice double(-leg), I knew it was going to be over.
ANDREW DAHL
I won one (championship) as a freshman, and I want to win a couple more before I'm done.
ANDREW DAHL
[Infantry boot camp was so effective that Dye organized POW simulation exercises as well.] We made a...
JOHN DAHL
I told them you have to go out there and forget the score. You have to stop them from scoring and yo...
CHRISTINA DAHL
Frank was her one true love, she told me.
ARLENE DAHL
I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a mus...
ARLENE DAHL
This class is special in the fact that they were completely dedicated to basketball. They're all I'v...
CHRISTINA DAHL
It's about righting a wrong. Somewhere along the line, someone screwed up. The feeling about the POW...
JOHN DAHL
It's a story about American combat in a foreign country, ... and it's a heroic story. Right now, not...
JOHN DAHL
I remember thinking this can't be happening, this can't be happening.
ELIZABETH DAHL
He didn't smoke or drink. He had low cholesterol. He worked out and walked a lot -- he didn't really...
ELIZABETH DAHL
It means a lot to know his memory is as alive for other people as it is for us.
ELIZABETH DAHL
You're walking around here with a smile on your face, Asher. It's freaking everybody out.
VICTORIA DAHL
Aw, hell, Tessa. I was in ninth grade. By the time I got to the part where I imagined a girl without...
VICTORIA DAHL
When we beat North Dakota here in 2001.
CRAIG DAHL
The atmosphere in here (Friday) was electric. That was my second-favorite game ever.
CRAIG DAHL
Up here it's a little different because you're not so emotionally involved in the game. You're not a...
CRAIG DAHL
I have two of them in the morning. I enjoy it for breakfast. It can be a treat.
ERIC DAHL
It was used and it worked yesterday.
ERIC DAHL
They basically backed the truck right out of the building.
ERIC DAHL
Yesterday's fire showed that nobody is immune to fire.
ERIC DAHL
We give them that emotional and physical assurance. We have a strong camaraderie of residents and st...
JAMES DAHL
For every day you spend in the hospital, you need two days here.
JAMES DAHL
We're a skilled nursing rehabilitation facility open to the community. We're staffed by nurses 24 ho...
JAMES DAHL
A yard for my little Charlie...he's fit right in, he seems like he loves it.
LORETTA DAHL
I met a man across the street, he's in a wheelchair and he patrols the neighborhood, yeah, and I met...
LORETTA DAHL
I hadn't ever really planned on owning a house again because I'm on social security.
LORETTA DAHL
It means...it just means so much that I can have a home and be independent...its just great.
LORETTA DAHL
One of the things I love about this program, the kids know this is a safe place to fall. For example...
JULI DAHL
Jerry said if anyone ever found out how much fun we were having, we'd have to pay an entertainment t...
JULI DAHL
We've used all kinds of resources to furnish this place.
JULI DAHL
We are right on the bubble as far as postseason play is concerned.
PAULA DAHL
Do as the Olympians do. Wear a helmet, even if you're not an elite skier or snowboarder especially i...
DR. ROALD BAHR
Wearing a helmet, if you're a skier or snowboarder, reduces your risk of having a head injury by 60 ...
DR. ROALD BAHR
Do as the Olympians do. Wear a helmet, even if you're not an elite skier or snowboarder -- especiall...
DR. ROALD BAHR
Do as the Olympians do. Wear a helmet, even if you're not an elite skier or snowboarder _ especially...
DR. ROALD BAHR