The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.
Roald Dahl
Related From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and re... ROALD DAHL My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watch... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hos... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I call her a cranes freak. She went to Africa, she went to China, she went to northern Japan looking... MIYEKO MURASE She went before a group of people at the state level, and she adequately demonstrated her problems w... LEE JOHNSON The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ... AKSHAY VASU She went into the studio and laid down some foundation tracks. The engineer was pretty impressed wit... ERIC KEAWE And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hil... LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita ... ROALD DAHL She opened her home and her Rolodex to us. Anything we needed she could find. It seemed like she was... DANIELLE RENFREW She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he... BERNARDO BATIZ In that time she got to graduate, go to her prom, and even went on a road trip with her friends befo... JANE LAWRENCE She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
... FRANCIS THOMPSON There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she w... CORNELIA FUNKE She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ... MARQUETTE BURGESS What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. The old man on the bench, for example, ... JERRY SPINELLI My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her... GORDON B. HINCKLEY She hates playing bad. She went through a time there when she really struggled with her putting and ... JULI INKSTER My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mo... CAMPBELL BROWN He laughed and was about to retort when she grabbed his collar and pulled him into her. She clamped ... DEREK LANDY She was an ugly little duckling — she wasn't ugly but she was a little duckling with terrible cost... FRANK CARROLL She was an ugly little duckling she wasn't ugly but she was a little duckling with terrible costu... FRANK CARROLL The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She... HAN KANG Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched. JANE AUSTEN She went to the locker room to throw up. I wanted her to go home and get in bed, but she didn't want... AHMIL JIHAD The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring... ARUNDHATI ROY Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a v... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart. JERRY SPINELLI Even though she didn't qualify, she was still so happy with her ride and will go to the championship... ANNE BOWIE She has the ability to step her game up in big games. She did that last year in Seattle when Sue Bir... BRIAN WINTERS Sometimes Coraline would forget who she was while she was daydreaming that she was exploring the Arc... NEIL GAIMAN Asha Greyjoy did not intend to be taken alive. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her ha... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She filled her house with blacks, and white parsons who went around preaching Jesus was a revolution... NADINE GORDIMER Hillary said today that she knew nothing about her brother's involvement (in Clinton's pardons). I b... JAY LENO If [Patricia Highsmith] saw an acquaintance walking down the sidewalk she would deliberately cross o... ANDREW WILSON She looked out and she saw the teenagers in the yard and saw the car, and then she went to bed. And ... LEE PROCUK (Pratt) basically did the same thing in (the first game) as she did tonight. We put three different ... VAL ANAE She told about how the chaplain came to tell her that her husband had died and all the trauma that s... JOE DOHERTY The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents... JOE HILL I saw her salt-and-pepper hair all over the country. She was kneeling in the small stone churches. S... JOAN HOMSTAD She was diagnosed with cancer at Thanksgiving time in 2004. She went into her doctor complaining of ... JASON QUINLAN She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... ALICE MUNRO She was perfectly sane in streets unknown. She loved conversing with people tagged as strangers. She... DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE I just bent her over and kissed her. She went her way and I went mine. We never said a word to each ... ERNEST DUBAY Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire,
Cast her ashes into the sea,--
She shall escape, she ... HELEN GRAY CONE If we adopted Valery, she is going to be happy with us because she knows New York, she knows her lit... ENRIQUE SALAS Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of ... BARBARA DEMICK And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress ... BIBLE She knows the ins and outs. If she's on, I'll go into her room she's got a little laptop and I... CINDY CIERI But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold c... HARRIET ANN JACOBS Whatever happens, she'll deal with it in her art. After her father's death, she talked about finding... ERICA ROTHMAN We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, s... LAINI TAYLOR After a while Luce curled up with her head leaning on a rock, wondering why she wasn't consumed with... SARAH PORTER [Christy] joined some other girls from her floor who had gathered in the den to watch THe Princess B... ROBIN JONES GUNN And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed... BIBLE ...it would have been nice, she supposed. It would have been nice to have one person who knew the ab... SARAH J. MAAS Those who had seen eyes like hers before understood instantly that she was a woman who had suffered,... DANIELLE STEEL I know she went here, but she was an Indiana coach. After we met with her, it eased all my worries. ... JODI HOWELL I held her in my arms, and her pressure fell and she went to sleep in my arms. HOWARD STARK During the course of my career, I've been shoulder to shoulder with some impressive, powerful people... CHARLES KOPPELMAN "She Never wore her Heart on her sleeves . "She didn't want the world to know about him . Little did... NADIRA AHMED Every time I open her door, she's there on her bed with all her books spread out everywhere. She stu... EETISHA RIDDLE She went back and forth. A little step caused her to be called out. MAUREEN DISORBO They lit her wings with the flames, but she raised to the sky soaring over the clouds until the whol... AKSHAY VASU I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, an... NATALIE GULBIS She called herself an angel, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She lived every kind o... ROMAN PAYNE She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It's easier to feel the sunlight without... BRIAN ANDREAS She is an amazing player; I love her to death. She is one of the best friends I have. It was hard be... JENNA SMITH Besides her family, the only other permanent part of her life was with her friends online. She could... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." ... DONNA LYNN HOPE ...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into... NORA ROBERTS She waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she starte... BRIAN ANDREAS [During her sabbatical, she said, she would often sit in her backyard in Venice, Calif., thinking an... FIONA APPLE You know what happened, she went, she went to a zoo, and a tiger, and I'm serious, scratched her. SIMON COWELL A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you... SOURCE UNKNOWN A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do yo... ANONYMOUS The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,... PAUL BOWLES I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone wit... ROBERT WILSON I hit her clean [in the side] with the first shot and she took off. The snow made it easy to follow ... RALPH MAZZUCA I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She ... DAVID ALMOND And this car was sitting along side the road. So, we went in and asked the lady behind the counter i... WAYNE BARLOW At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my bo... ALICE HOFFMAN She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c... LISA ZARAN I have spoken to a friend of mine. Actually, she was my background singer and she lives in New Orlea... PATTI LABELLE I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I li... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with
pity: and when winter evenings fall e... SIR THOMAS OVERBURY I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used ... BERENICE BEJO I remember her sitting at the dining room table with the bills. She had everything balanced to the p... LARRY MORRISSEY He just threatened [the sister]. Apparently he told her he would kill her if she said anything. She ... TOM SMART She always went out of her way to make people comfortable. CONRAD COLEMAN I cannot forget that picture of the little girl who, after the grenade fell in the on the market pla... CARL BILDT I cannot forget that picture of the little girl who, after the grenade fell in the on the market pla... CARL BILDT My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so... ARJUN KAPOOR When I saw her jumping so well I was cheering her on, too. Back in the village, I told her if she ke... SANYA RICHARDS No matter what, the day didn't feel like Christmas to her. She remembered years ago, when... KAYLA KRANTZ I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist,... MALUMA I want her [Thorn] to play defense all 90 feet and she's quick enough to do it and that's the type o... DONNA NICHOLSON she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks. CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER It's crazy to watch. There were camera crews waiting for her when she went into rookie orientation a... MORGAN PRESSEL
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ROALD DAHL I shall never have a bath again," I said. "Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said.... ROALD DAHL So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, ... ROALD DAHL I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I k... ROALD DAHL A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master e... ROALD DAHL Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing b... ROALD DAHL You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of. ROALD DAHL Two rights don't equal a left. ROALD DAHL Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets. ROALD DAHL Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than eve... ROALD DAHL My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"... ROALD DAHL A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizz... ROALD DAHL The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when... ROALD DAHL Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from ... ROALD DAHL It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible. ROALD DAHL I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. ROALD DAHL It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you. ROALD DAHL We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy par... ROALD DAHL England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain ... ROALD DAHL I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. 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ROALD DAHL A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. ROALD DAHL Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it. ROALD DAHL If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, ... ROALD DAHL The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to hi... ROALD DAHL Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy ... ROALD DAHL It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself ROALD DAHL ¿Os dais cuenta cabal de la cadena de crímenes tramados por la nena? Crimen número uno: la acusad... ROALD DAHL I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books. ROALD DAHL Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel geva... ROALD DAHL Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus... ROALD DAHL Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous... ROALD DAHL What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her. ROALD DAHL I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I? ROALD DAHL In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. S... ROALD DAHL Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment ... ROALD DAHL There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to ... ROALD DAHL I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you g... ROALD DAHL There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said. ‘Do you think that all ... 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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. ROALD DAHL 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 ROALD DAHL Era davvero uno strano spettacolo guardare quella personcina seduta, i cui piedi non arrivavano a te... ROALD DAHL 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... 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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