top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Needs quotes
"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."
"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."
"What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian."
"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."
"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
"Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn."
"We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid."
Explore more quotes by Roald Dahl
"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
"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."
"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
"Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife."
"All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely."
bottom of page