Stig Of The Dump Quotes
"Everybody had been telling him about the ground giving way, but there was a difference between being told and seeing it happen."
"Barney wished he was at the bottom of the pit."
"This is what it’s like when the ground gives way, thought Barney."
"It was dark in the back of the cave. Stig went to the front where the ashes of a fire were smoking faintly, blew on them, picked up a book that lay beside his bed, tore out a page and rolled it up, lit it at the fire, and carried it to a lamp set in a niche in the wall."
"You weren’t likely to find anything stranger than Stig wherever you looked."
"‘He’s a sort of boy,’ replied Barney. ‘He just wears rabbit-skins and lives in a cave. He gets his water through a vacuum cleaner and puts chalk in his bath. He’s my friend.’"
"Barney had swallowed a mouthful before he made out the writing on the can: it said WEEDKILLER. However, the water only tasted of rust and rubber."
"Barney decided he probably hadn’t. His eye fell on Stig’s water-pipe."
"Stig didn’t know he needed a chimney. He didn’t know what a chimney was."
"Once you’ve put a chimney and a window on a house, you’ve really made a house."
"‘Stig,’ said Barney. ‘When I come back again, you – you will still be here, won’t you?’"
"And he felt that Stig’s house was as much his home as anywhere else. After all, it was like drawing pictures. Once you’ve put a chimney and a window on a house, you’ve really made a house."
"He supposed he should have tied the rope on before they had started cutting."
"‘Stig,’ he called. ‘Do you think you ought to? Oh Stig, isn’t it too big, Stig? Stig, I didn’t know you were such a chopper! Well done Stig! Stig, Stig, let me have a go!’"
"‘Phew, we’ve done it!’ he gasped, gaping at the ruin they had made and the great empty hole they had left in the sky line. ‘What a lot of firewood!’"
"You want me to show you how to strike a match, Stig? Here, push the little drawer thing! That’s right, but not too far. Take out a match. Now you better shut the box. Hold the match by the white end, not the black end, silly! Now rub it on the side of the box. No, the side. There!"
"He seemed to be looking through it, not at it."
"For Stig was not thinking about making pictures. He was out there with the hunt, galloping with the animals, running with the hunters."
"The only dangerous things were motor-cars when you crossed the road."
"Without thinking, he jabbed at it wildly with his spear, but the owl – for that’s what it was – swerved away sharply and ghosted off into the dark."
"Lou’s eyes and mouth were round with disbelief."
"He looked all ready for the spring hunting season."
"Stig kept hold of him and led him firmly but gently towards his den."
"It was just like when he was trying to explain about Stig to the grownups – they just smiled and said ‘Really?’"
"The car bumped down on its underneath: perhaps it would stop now."
"I’m afraid my grandson has a very strong imagination."
"If a grown-up said so, and such a kind grown-up, and a policeman too, perhaps you could imagine fights with robbers and cars going over cliffs. Perhaps he just imagined Stig."
"It did happen. And I know where the treasure is."
"‘It’s just for playing with,’ explained Barney. ‘Look, here’s another!’ He rolled the second marble along the ground to Stig."
"‘Can I have that, Stig? Oo, thank you!’ He took the skins under his arm."
"I think we’re all here, so we’ll start off by dancing Sir Roger de Coverley. I expect you all know it, don’t you?"
"It was so naughty of you to go outside. One, two, three, four, five … Just go in the hall and stand still while I count you all!"
"It was like a nightmare game, when nobody knew what the next move should be."
"Of course. You can come with me to the pit. But I’ll have to ask him if he wants to see you."
"‘But it’s the middle of the night!’ ‘I know. I don’t care. It’s light as day.’"
"‘Perhaps they’re cave men on holiday,’ he said."
"‘I think it’s our turn to make a speech.’ ‘Well, go on then!’ said Lou. ‘I don’t know the language!’"
"Remember, girls, that schooldays are the happiest days of your life. We can’t all win prizes but –"
"I come to bury Caesar not to praise him, the evil that men do lives after them, it droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven, upon the place beneath."
"Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more!"
"Beware the jabberwock, my son, the jaws that bite, the claws that scratch."
"Christmas is coming! The geese are getting fat! PLEASE! put a penny in the old man's hat."
"And then Barney too caught another sound that went with the thumps of the footsteps. Before each thump there was a sort of long-drawn wail."
"Look, we can’t both be dreaming the same dream, so we must be both awake."
"It isn’t that sort of a dream at all. We really are here. We’ve got to get back to Granny’s somehow."
"They had flint spears, and it was the heave-ho that did it."