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Philip Reeve Quotes

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Philip Reeve

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: February 28, 1966

Topics

Future Retro Used Being Vibe Stuff

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a budget. Every local government, every state, knows they have to do a budget.

John Boehner

Family Business Government Small

I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.

Menachem Begin

Sky Blue Memory Jerusalem Clear

I don't even have a cell phone. I don't know how they work.

Andre Previn

Work Cell Phone Phone Know Even How

We need to do more to support working families, like guarantee access to paid sick and parental leave and make sure every parent has access to quality, affordable child care.

Tom Perez

Quality Support Child Sick Care

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Roger McGough

Poetry Doing You Tell Show Anybody

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.

Masaharu Morimoto

Home Walk I Am Eating Wake Up Road

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

Michael Scheuer

Community Great Intelligence American

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Lisa See

Friendship Time People You Back Out

All of us who lived outside of New Orleans were horrified and heartbroken by what we saw when Katrina hit, the floods that followed the hurricane that happened.

Jonathan Demme

New Outside New Orleans Lived Saw

Our society's dependence on imagery says a lot about our values.

Chelsea Manning

Society Values Imagery Dependence

Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.

Christine McVie

City Want Nothing Around

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

Conor Oberst

Best World Song Feeling Finish