{"author":"Roald Dahl","author_id":"Roald+Dahl","total_quotes":68,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["children","parents"],"id":913,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["book-nerds","books","matilda","roald-dahl"],"id":1547,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["girls","misbehaving"],"id":4252,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["humor"],"id":4664,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"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.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["inspirational"],"id":12258,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"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.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["books","kids","readers","reading"],"id":12437,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"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.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["believe","glittering-eyes","hidden","magic","secrets","unlikely-places","watch","world"],"id":16943,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["greed","role-models"],"id":24678,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"We may see a Creature with forty-nine headsWho lives in the desolate snow,And whenever he catches a cold (which he dreads)He has forty-nine noses to blow.'We may see the venomous Pink-Spotted ScrunchWho can chew up a man with one bite.It likes to eat five of them roasted for lunchAnd eighteen for its supper at night.'We may see a Dragon, and nobody knowsThat we won't see a Unicorn there.We may see a terrible Monster with toesGrowing out of the tufts of his hair.'We may see the sweet little Biddy-Bright HenSo playful, so kind and well-bred;And such beautiful eggs! You just boil them and thenThey explode and they blow off your head.'A Gnu and a Gnocerous surely you'll seeAnd that gnormous and gnorrible GnatWhose sting when it stings you goes in at the kneeAnd comes out through the top of your hat.'We may even get lost and be frozen by frost.We may die in an earthquake or tremor.Or nastier still, we may even be tossedOn the horns of a furious Dilemma.'But who cares! Let us go from this horrible hill!Let us roll! Let us bowl! Let us plunge!Let's go rolling and bowling and spinning untilWe're away from old Spiker and Sponge!","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["adventure","imagination","james-and-the-giant-peach","monsters","roald-dahl"],"id":35854,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"},{"text":"You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked.'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more.Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again.","author":"Roald Dahl","tags":["kids","teaching"],"id":64006,"author_id":"Roald+Dahl"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}