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Me Quotes by Michael Morpurgo
- Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first…
- Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but…
- A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.
- Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
- There's a mouse in here with me. He's sitting there in the light of the lamp, looking up at me. He seems as surprised to…
- We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom.…
- My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that…
- But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.
- For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it I always find…
- This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men…
- I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others…
- When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in…
- With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy woman…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale