Roald Dahl Zitate

„Beobachten Sie vor allem mit funkelnden Augen die ganze Welt um Sie herum, denn die größten Geheimnisse sind immer an den unwahrscheinlichsten Orten verborgen. Diejenigen, die nicht an Magie glauben, werden sie niemals finden.“

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“It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”

“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.”

“Two wrongs don't make a right.”

“Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets.”

“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”

“Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”

“I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.”

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul and that, I am sure, is why he does it.”

“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it 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.”

“I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!”

“My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"
"I don't mind at all" I said.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.”

“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…”

“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 so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.”

“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.”

“We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!”

“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.”

“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.”

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”

“I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.”

“Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”

“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”

“You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.”

“Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.”