Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenSchoolReadingLearnWant

I'm aware of my body.

Joanna Lumley

BodyAware

Painting is but another word for feeling.

John Constable

PaintingFeelingWordAnother

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

Andrea Bocelli

MyselfSingingFeelNowComfortable

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.'

Robert Gottlieb

TogetherDanceMeGangsterVegas

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul

CourageSeeingBlindlyDanger

I realized the world spins without me having to spin it.

John Schnatter

MeWorldWithoutSpinRealized

I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.

Maryanne Wolf

LifeKnowledgeChildrenJoyEffort

It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.

Mike Pence

PowerTragedyNewMoreOfficeSeek

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

Michael Moore

NeverDistractionFooledMajority

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Julia Cameron

WorkBusinessCreativityIdeasThink

I don't want to have to be a teacher so I can be a comedian.

Josh Gondelman

TeacherI CanWantComedian

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

Joseph Nye

StrengthWinSmallTerrorismAgainst

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