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"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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11/15/12

Roald Dahl Quotes


"A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones." ~Roald Dahl

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." ~Roald Dahl

"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." ~Roald Dahl

"All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen." ~Roald Dahl 

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." ~Roald Dahl

"Don't gobblefunk around with words." ~Roald Dahl

"Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets." ~Roald Dahl

"I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be." ~Roald Dahl

"I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage." ~Roald Dahl

"I think kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. … I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else... Kindness, that simple word. To be kind, it covers everything... If you’re kind, that’s it." ~Roald Dahl

"If I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead." ~Roald Dahl

"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." ~Roald Dahl

"It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” ~Roald Dahl

"It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself." ~Roald Dahl

"Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.  Notice them. " ~Roald Dahl 

"Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is si completely crazy. It's unbelievable." ~Roald Dahl

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” ~ Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

"Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up." ~Roald Dahl

"The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves." ~Roald Dahl

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." ~Roald Dahl

VERSE

"All you do is to look
At a page in this book
Because that’s where we always will be.
No book ever ends
When it’s full of your friends."
~Roald Dahl

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