John Dahl
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[Infantry boot camp was so effective that Dye organized POW simulation exercises as well.] We made a... JOHN DAHL It's about righting a wrong. Somewhere along the line, someone screwed up. The feeling about the POW... JOHN DAHL A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ROALD DAHL The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed... ROALD DAHL I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my ... ROALD DAHL I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawlin... ROALD DAHL Life is more fun if you play games. ROALD DAHL Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ROALD DAHL Don't gobblefunk around with words. ROALD DAHL You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.ROALD DAHL And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar... ROALD DAHL My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when h... ROALD DAHL I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert o... ROALD DAHL I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted... ROALD DAHL 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 It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting littl... ROALD DAHL With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing ... ROALD DAHL If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lo... ROALD DAHL An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of... ROALD DAHL All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quit... ROALD DAHL All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is di... ROALD DAHL The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very f... ROALD DAHL Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings yo... ROALD DAHL A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth an... ROALD DAHL So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,ROALD DAHL Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. ROALD DAHL 'Dexter' is a very well-oiled machine; it's just a great show and great to be part of. ROALD DAHL Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been ... ROALD DAHL The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting li... ROALD DAHL So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ... ROALD DAHL We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. ROALD DAHL And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted.... ROALD DAHL But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions. ROALD DAHL A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. ROALD DAHL I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours,... ROALD DAHL I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are in... ROALD DAHL Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watchin... ROALD DAHL I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all t... ROALD DAHL I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib... ROALD DAHL I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back... ROALD DAHL If you are good life is good. ROALD DAHL Don’t argue, my dear child, please don’t argue!” cried Mr. Wonka. “It’s such a waste of pr... ROALD DAHL I shall never have a bath again," I 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 told them you have to go out there and forget the score. You have to stop them from scoring and yo... CHRISTINA 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 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 Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing b... ROALD DAHL This class is special in the fact that they were completely dedicated to basketball. They're all I'v... CHRISTINA 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 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 bigROALD DAHL I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the... ROALD DAHL The most important thing we've learned, ROALD DAHL If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts... ROALD DAHL I do not like film directors very much. They lack humility and they are too damn sure that everythin... ROALD DAHL I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death... ROALD DAHL Some adults forget what it was like to be a kid,'' Burton says. ROALD DAHL Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents. ROALD DAHL And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted.... ROALD DAHL Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them la... ROALD DAHL We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. - Charlie and the Chocolate Facto... ROALD DAHL We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ROALD DAHL All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option,'' says Peter Hunt, chil... ROALD DAHL It wasn't raindrops at all. It was a great solid mass of water that might have been a lake or a whol... ROALD DAHL Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast. ROALD DAHL Obscurity is never a virtue. ROALD DAHL If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. ROALD DAHL You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You... ROALD DAHL You mean to tell me,’ I said, ‘that every time I pleasure a young lady, I shoot into her two tho... ROALD DAHL Listening to my father during those early years, I began to realise how important it was to be an en... ROALD DAHL Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up o... ROALD DAHL Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating th... ROALD DAHL The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fa... ROALD DAHL Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have be... ROALD DAHL I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not poss... ROALD DAHL A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether h... ROALD DAHL Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appr... ROALD DAHL Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more. ROALD DAHL When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people... ROALD DAHL A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. ROALD 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.ROALD DAHL There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" ROALD DAHL A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Loo... ROALD DAHL All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they wou... ROALD DAHL I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, a... ROALD DAHL Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make s... ROALD DAHL Did you know", Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred... ROALD DAHL From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and re... ROALD DAHL Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books. 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. ROALD DAHL Here it is,' Nigel said.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 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 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."ROALD DAHL Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone?ROALD DAHL Poor Cindy's heart was torn to shreds.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.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 JOHN OLIVER JOHN BERGER JOHN WYCLIFFE JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE
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If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about ... 
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... 
All of life is a foreign country. 
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. 
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. 
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... 
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technol... 
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous ... 
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might ... 
I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of... 
[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural... 
Every story has its demands. 
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor se... 
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. I... 
'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure a... 
If a brand genuinely wants to make a social contribution, it should start with who they are, not wha... 
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Ev... 
Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don&#... 
For me, it really first has to be a good story and be funny. If you're doing sincere comedy, the edg... 
I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own... 
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it. 
I wasn't interested in doing a baseball story. My favorite sports movies transcend the sports that t... 
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. 
I wasn't interested in doing a baseball story. 
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso... 
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso... 
one day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonde... 
Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story. 
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the wo... 
For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect... 
It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story... 
He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any ... 
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is desi... 
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this b... 
Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple sto... 
While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too man... 
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, t... 
If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and a... 
The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that w... 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 