[Infantry boot camp was so effective that Dye organized POW simulation exercises as well.] We made all the actors take their shoes off, put 'em around their neck and walk 2 miles to the camp, ... In the camp, the actors would only speak Japanese to them -- no English at all -- because we wanted the actors to understand that feeling where you've got somebody screaming at you in Japanese, which I think would be terrifying.


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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
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
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
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
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
We are right on the bubble as far as postseason play is concerned.
PAULA 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
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
ROBERT A. DAHL
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democ...
ROBERT A. DAHL
Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to conf...
ROBERT A. DAHL
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE