Shadow Michael Morpurgo Quotes

#1. that was the only way of keeping our hopes alive, by looking beyond all we were seeing around us, and the shadow of disaster that hung over us.

Michael Morpurgo

#2. All the habits of Man are evil.

George Orwell

#3. The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget. Not love. Something else, something with a power that endures. Not love, but a memory of love.

Aminatta Forna

#4. My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. If the road is wonderful, then we may want to be the road itself rather than a traveller passing from that road!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer

Sun Ra

#7. Ah, you are amusing."
"I am not amusing!" I lifted my chin. "I'm pissed."
"Really," he replied dryly. "I never would've guessed that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. Mankind has never invented a weapon that they did not use sooner or later.

Paullina Simons

#9. That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

Marie Dressler

#10. Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn.

Pat Conroy