Michael Morpurgo Quotes
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been a partier.
-
Tone can be as important as text.
-
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
-
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
-
I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
-
I often reread books I have written.
-
We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
-
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
-
Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
-
I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
-
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
-
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
-
I think the future takes care of itself.
-
I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
-
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
-
I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
-
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
-
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
-
Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.
-
A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.
-
The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.
-
It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.
