Michael Morpurgo Quotes

I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 5, 1943

Topics

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We think it's fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That's not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn't become actors.

Angelina Jolie

FunMeThinkGoalBecomeUs

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Robert Anton Wilson

LoveSmallWhat You LoveYouBig

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

Roger Bannister

WorkBrainMedicineLimitsYouStop

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

Mason Cooley

ForgottenMostRuinedReputations

Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.

Mary Pilon

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The Boys and Girls club was basically a second home for me, and I always credit it with keeping me out of trouble. From the ages of 6 to 16, I was there nearly every day.

Mike Scully

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When I did 'Crash,' to be honest with you, it was just another acting job. I just wanted to do as good as I possibly could.

Michael Pena

GoodJobYouActingHonestJust

Do you remember those AM radio kits you get as a kid, and you build your own AM radio? Well, I never actually built one. But I did get them as a gift, for, like, 3 Christmases in a row, and I hated them.

Lucas Till

GiftRememberYouBuildNeverRadio

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

Joshua Foer

DayMindBetterGetting BetterReach

Going through your reads, there is always an answer. And if you consistently, from a mental standpoint as a quarterback, go through your reads, you always give your team a chance to win.

Jordan Rodgers

TeamWinChanceYouGoAlways

Frank Loesser was a beautiful soul. I didn't know how great he was when I met him, but I just adored him. He was a sweet man.

Donna McKechnie

BeautifulGreatSoulManSweetKnow

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

Cindy Sheehan

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