Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Michael Morpurgo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeaceFightWarPeopleUnderstand

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Jimmy Buffett

TodayTimeReadingAlwaysLeisure

Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.

John Delaney

PoliticalPowerfulWashingtonPoor

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Mel Brooks

MistakesWorldLongSpinningDizzy

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

Ann Brashares

BeginningWonderMove OnStrangeHow

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.

Robert Charles Winthrop

HandsCountryMoreHeartsStillOur

I'm a huge Springsteen fan.

Minnie Driver

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I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Jonathan Davis

I AmPeopleMeThinkCareKnow

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

Dick Van Dyke

HomeLovedGoYoungSilentTry

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable.

Chris Adami

TimeSelfishShortYouEvolution

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

Craig Kilborn

SadManWarSupportWorldNight

As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.

Claudia Rankine

BlackUnderstandingYouBodyFast

What I learned from people like Carlos Santana is that you cannot get too happy after working for five years in the industry. It takes years and years, and I learned to keep a straight head and keep on working harder and harder.

Wyclef Jean

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