There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.
There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven’t met...
My dear young fellow,? the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, ’there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
Bunkum and tummyrot! You’ll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he’d said ‘What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?’ He wouldn’t even have started.
You ignorant little slug!” the Trunchbull bellowed. “You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!
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 face go because no one can see me; because there’s twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don’t have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Hooray!” said the Chief of the Army. “Let’s blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!
It’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
The matter with human beans,” the BFG went on, “is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.
However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.
What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
We’ve got a lovely telly with a twelve-inch screen and now you come asking for a book! You’re getting spoiled, my girl!
Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.
I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.
If it’s by an American it’s certain to be filth. That’s all they write about.
A good plot is like a dream.
Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.
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.