Quotes About Adventure

We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. So do please now and then Come and see us again, The Giraffe and the Pelly and me. 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 The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

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.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

I will not pretend I wasn't petrified. I was. But mixed in with the awful fear was a glorious feeling of excitement. Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.

I libri le aprivano mondi nuovi e le facevano conoscere persone straordinarie che vivevano una vita piena di avventure. Viaggiava su antichi velieri con Joseph Conrad. Andava in Africa con Ernest Hemingway e in India con Kipling. Girava il mondo restando seduta nella sua stanza, in un villaggio inglese.

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.

Sometimes, on a very clear night,' the BFG said, 'and if I is swiggling my ears in the right direction' – and here he swivelled his great ears upwards so they were facing the ceiling – 'if I is swiggling them like this and the night is very clear, I is sometimes hearing faraway music coming from the stars in the sky.' A queer little shiver passed through Sophie's body. She sat very quiet, waiting for more.

She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Never grow up...always down.

You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. These were distant and magic lands and nobody went to them just for a holiday. You went there to work. Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours and nothing is fabulous anymore.

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.

We are now about to visit the most marvelous places and see the most wonderful things!

I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.

Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. 'By who?' Sophie said.

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk

A good plot is like a dream.

Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.

Every dream in the world is making a different sort of buzzy-hum music.

Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn't be exciting if they didn't.