Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.

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• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Work
  • Wall
  • Need

• My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Dumb

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Up
  • Look
  • Books

• I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Start

• As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • American
  • Age
  • Want

• George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Life
  • World
  • Finance

• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • California
  • Berkeley

• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Hate
  • Food
  • Animals

• Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Mean
  • Evil
  • Same

• I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Men
  • True
  • Respect

• Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Military

• But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Love
  • Smile
  • Satisfaction

• Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?

  

  Brian Hugh Warner
  • Children

• I have a professional life, and so does the media. Let's face it: how can they come up with new gossip every day? So, they have to make stuff up about someone's personal life, which is fine.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Life
  • Up
  • Professional

• My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

  

  Christina Applegate
  • Up
  • House
  • Dream

• Champions are an example of what happens when you decide to leave the plane of average thinking, where you dare to dream and you dare to go after that dream, and you make these thoughts and ideas become more than something than just a dream. They actually become a vision.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Vision

• Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Problem
  • Where
  • Risks

• Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Book
  • Dream
  • Wonderful