Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.

Michael Morpurgo

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• I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Value
  • Challenge

• At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Meetings

• Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Wise
  • Advice
  • Profit

• I'm not here to win a popularity contest.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Win
  • Here
  • Popularity

• You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Care
  • Negative

• Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Up

• They never fail who dieIn a great cause.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Great

• But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Great
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• I have musical ADD or something, and I get bored doing the same thing over and over. I love different sounds, different influences.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Different
  • Bored

• You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.

  

  Mick Jones The Clash
  • Writing
  • Small

• The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a blessed feeling.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Blessed

• I wanted to be a stuntman. I've done stunts since I was 11, and wanted to be able to do them whatever kind of work I ended up in. I've had a horse roll on me, but luckily, everything stayed intact.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Up
  • Black
  • Single

• When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • Help

• You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Fashion

• I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

  

  David Johansen
  • Why

• I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people.

  

  Megan Nicole
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Judging
  • Appearance
  • Notion

• I believe every Christian should be involved in politics.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Christian
  • Politics
  • I Believe

• I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Trying
  • Feels
  • Journey