Quotes About Imagination

That's why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas. They're for new countries. You're meant to fill them in yourself.

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

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the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.

Dear children far across the sea, How nice of you to write to me. I love to hear the things you say When you are miles and miles away. All children, and I think I'm right, Are nicer when they're out of sight!

A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.

Crocodile tongues!" he cried. "One thousand long slimy crocodile tongues boiled up in the skull of a dead witch for twenty days and nights with the eyeballs of a lizard! Add the fingers of a young monkey, the gizzard of a pig, the beak of a green parrot, the juice of a porcupine, and three spoonfuls of sugar. Stew for another week, and then let the moon do the rest!

Most people—and especially small children—are often quite scared of being out of doors alone in the moonlight. Everything is so deadly quiet, and the shadows are so long and black, and they keep turning into strange shapes that seem to move as you look at them, and the slightest little snap of a twig makes you jump.

I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name?

She might even — and this will make you jump — she might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment.

I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But — and here comes the big "but" — it is not impossible.

I find that just a little hard to believe,' Sophie said. 'I'll bet you is also finding it hard to believe in quogwinkles

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.

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

had been used for stirring paint. George picked it up and started to stir his marvelous concoction. The mixture was as thick as cream

You'd have been fossilized with fear and glued to the ground! Then they'd have got you! You'd have been a cooked cucumber! You'd have been rasped into a thousand tiny bits, grated like cheese and flocculated alive! They'd have made necklaces from your knucklebones and bracelets from your teeth!

The Oompa-Loompas

Bucket was able to get rid of them so that Charlie could go to bed. 13

he LOVED THAT SMELL! And oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like!

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

Dreams like being mixed,' the BFG answered. 'They is getting very lonesome all by themselves in those glassy bottles.

Yes, but I've read the books as well." Mrs. Phelps looked down at Matilda from her great height and Matilda looked right back up at her. "I thought some were very poor," Matilda said, "but others were lovely. I liked The Secret Garden best of all. It was full of mystery. The mystery of the room behind the closed door and the mystery of the garden behind the big wall.

finished reading.

The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump.