Morris Gleitzman quote: "I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens."

At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or n...
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely dif...
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters ...
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their live...
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

Halfway through primary school, I realised that I was not as physically strong or fearless as many k...
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfai...
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

See? Memories aren't happy, they're sad. Don't you know anything?
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least once
MORRIS GLEITZMAN

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is ...
DICK MORRIS

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small c...
MORRIS WEST

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americ...
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS

I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.
HEATHER MORRIS

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its e...
MORRIS GRAVES

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
DESMOND MORRIS

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
MORRIS WEST

It seems like almost every day I've been able to cross things off my bucket list.
MAREN MORRIS

There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, a...
DICK MORRIS

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to be...
DAVE MORRIS

Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not ...
MAREN MORRIS

I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned ...
MAREN MORRIS

I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Co...
MORRIS CHESTNUT

I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t...
STEPHEN MORRIS

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
GARRETT MORRIS

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student...
TOM MORRIS

No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, eit...
WESLEY MORRIS

Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones'...
DAVE MORRIS

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ou...
DESMOND MORRIS

I'm not in the teenybopper bracket, and I'm not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has...
MAREN MORRIS

Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wi...
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

We need the water fixed. We need to take a shower.
ADAM MORRIS

I had good blocks, ... My fullback turned his guy inside and I cut it up on the hash marks. The free...
ADAM MORRIS

This feels good - my first game at tailback and I get athlete of the week, ... I couldn't do it with...
ADAM MORRIS

Coach always tells us everybody wants to take the top dog down. I'm kind of surprised we're undefeat...
ADAM MORRIS

I missed the entire tournament season. It was very painful sitting there watching the games when I k...
ADAM MORRIS

It was good to play St. Joseph because down there in Corpus Christi and in the playoffs, they allow ...
ADAM MORRIS

They lost 27 fire trucks in the hurricane and seven fire stations were completely destroyed.
ADAM MORRIS

I've got to put on some more points and more yardage,
ADAM MORRIS

It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy w...
MAREN MORRIS

'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narr...
DAVE MORRIS

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare
the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bo...
LEWIS MORRIS

For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS

The unlived life is not worth examining.
TOM MORRIS

Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answ...
MORRIS MANDEL

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
LOUIE MORRIS

No agency is better than its account executives.
MORRIS HITE

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a beli...
MORRIS HITE

The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
DESMOND MORRIS

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we...
DESMOND MORRIS

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you...
WILLIAM MORRIS

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
MORRIS FISHBEIN

A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
MORRIS BENDER

I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the in...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought f...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planet's way of avoiding a larger death.
MORRIS BERGMAN

You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
LOUIE MORRIS

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sande...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!
CHARLES MORRIS

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
DESMOND MORRIS

A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
MORRIS FISHBEIN

There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty I...
CHRIS MORRIS

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support t...
DICK MORRIS

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the posi...
DICK MORRIS

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You ...
WESLEY MORRIS

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don&#...
MORRIS HITE

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency ...
MORRIS HITE

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people...
WILLIAM MORRIS

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in...
DICK MORRIS

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
DESMOND MORRIS

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the ...
MORRIS WEST

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face...
MORRIS DEES

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say...
MARK MORRIS

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.
RICHARD MORRIS

Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.
RICHARD MORRIS

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire t...
RICHARD MORRIS

Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!
GERALD MORRIS

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play J...
MORRIS CHESTNUT

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name o...
JIM MORRIS

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral reperto...
RICHARD MORRIS

When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if the...
CHRIS MORRIS

By the end of the year when we needed points and were not scoring, we went in to Tai and she was dom...
ANDY MORRIS

We called on her to corral and control and be physical with the opponent's best player and she did t...
ANDY MORRIS

She had a great season this year.
ANDY MORRIS

Everyone expects a lot of her and she's been performing up to those expectations.
ANDY MORRIS

There's no quit in Lowry. They're just go, go, go. They started playing really aggressively offensiv...
ANDY MORRIS

She had a breakout game.
ANDY MORRIS

They wanted it more and they were determined to get it. Credit the girls. They just went harder.
ANDY MORRIS

They really took away the things we wanted to do.
ANDY MORRIS

It was a great game. Exciting.
ANDY MORRIS

They couldn't stop her. She was playing a great ball game.
ANDY MORRIS

Well, having a winning record is nice, but our goal is to win our last (playoff) game of the year an...
ANDREW MORRIS

[The Premier League] has taken a very careful approach to the regulators,
ANDREW MORRIS

In some ways, children have made a remarkable recovery.
ANDREW MORRIS

If it gets colder than expected then we could see interruptions and prices could go higher.
ANDREW MORRIS

The pioneer in the whole broadcast arena has been Formula One [grand prix racing],
ANDREW MORRIS

One gets the personal satisfaction of achieving a difficult physical challenge ? it is 150 miles on ...
ANDREW MORRIS

The positive energy and the overall tone of this event are almost euphoric, ... To have 2,400 people...
ANDREW MORRIS

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and p...
DESMOND MORRIS

If it's just 100 we won't need any additional personnel, ... It just depends on how they fall out gr...
ANTHONY MORRIS

[Though the move from level 3 to level 4 is labeled one of the hardest, Superintendent Anthony Morri...
ANTHONY MORRIS

We are really not sure how it's going to affect the calendar, ... Depending on the state level, it m...
ANTHONY MORRIS

We do not intend to let up any, at all, in what we are doing in our efforts to move up to the next l...
ANTHONY MORRIS

I am satisfied in stabbing him [Mr Fahri], you intended to kill him.
ANTHONY MORRIS

[The schools need positive support; they need positive comments from community members, Morris said....
ANTHONY MORRIS

I grabbed him up, and I had blood all over me. He started crying.
AMANDA MORRIS

He was afraid to come back here because they didn't know if they were going to shoot him again. He's...
AMANDA MORRIS

I'll think twice before I take him outside to play, especially if there's a lot of people out there.
AMANDA MORRIS

It was scary. I didn't know what to do.
AMANDA MORRIS

I'm looking for new silhouettes, crisp designs. I'm looking for something that could stand near an A...
ALBERT MORRIS

After doing Paris, Milan, New York and London, we had a budget for India...But I am going back with ...
ALBERT MORRIS

It's a big job. I'm very humbled, but very excited by the prospect.
ALBERT MORRIS

The National Medical Association is positioned to really provide the type of resources this communit...
ALBERT MORRIS

I look forward to being effective, ... You can have a great job, but what's the point if you aren't ...
ALBERT MORRIS

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person ...
ERROL MORRIS

A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium...
DAVE MORRIS

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't exp...
CHRIS MORRIS

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. The...
WESLEY MORRIS

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
DESMOND MORRIS

Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, t...
MAREN MORRIS

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, th...
WILLIAM MORRIS

How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and p...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.
HEATHER MORRIS

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
WESLEY MORRIS

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition...
DICK MORRIS

Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, ...
HEATHER MORRIS

I go through different phases and change my mind about my style all the time. In the winter, I wante...
HEATHER MORRIS

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossi...
JAN MORRIS

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
ERROL MORRIS

What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys wh...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is ta...
JAN MORRIS

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market ...
DICK MORRIS

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you....
ROGER MORRIS

Bob Gates is really emblematic of the modern CIA. He joins it in 1968, just a day before the Soviets...
ROGER MORRIS

For the past couple of games we haven't been honing in on our defensive skills. But it feels good to...
BRITTANY MORRIS

We kept hustling. Our defense was amazing. We played hard. The bench played well -- we have a lot of...
BRITTANY MORRIS

It feels great. Tucker told us people were thinking we're not that good. It's nice to show people we...
BRITTANY MORRIS

This feels great. Especially being a freshman. Sometimes I get nervous feeling I have to prove mysel...
BRITTANY MORRIS

We are actively cultivating relationships with people who might be in a position to help us that way...
BUD MORRIS

The university master plan calls for a Health and Human Services building at some point, but it's no...
BUD MORRIS

We want to show the community that there are things happening at our college that are directly benef...
BUD MORRIS

That place will have the look and feel of a real hospital instead of just being a mock-up.
BUD MORRIS

The purpose ... is to produce students who can help meet crucial state and regional needs. The Healt...
BUD MORRIS

I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime.
HEATHER MORRIS

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, pr...
WESLEY MORRIS

Sometimes nationalism can be jingoistic - even fascistic - but it can also be a constructive impetus...
DICK MORRIS

The bus driver was totally in shock.
BRIAN MORRIS

We've worked very hard to get our fiscal house in order, ... This was not anticipated.
BRIAN MORRIS

She was face down with both wheels on her when I got out there.
BRIAN MORRIS

It was one of those situations where nobody could do anything.
BRIAN MORRIS

First thing I heard this morning was, 'Oh, my baby. My baby, she's under the school bus.
BRIAN MORRIS

What the state said was that it was a good plan, but that it lacked the resources, we lacked the res...
BRIAN MORRIS

There has been a certain amount of lost momentum during the summer and this has continued into Octob...
BRIAN MORRIS

Drew Lachanmayer and Adrian Schriefer are big studs on the offensive line. That's the key part of ou...
BRIAN MORRIS

Our pre-season practices have been very effective and we've been getting a lot done,
BRIAN MORRIS

Our issue now is that we are moving forward, that the system is a much healthier organization than i...
BRIAN MORRIS

Case managers are what did it for me. What did my way get me for 25 years?
BOB MORRIS

About three weeks ago I talked to Eunice police and the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office and asked...
BOB MORRIS

It's somewhat surprising that they've decided not to block that area.
BOB MORRIS

We had control in the first half, but in the fourth quarter their pressure defense got to us and cau...
BOB MORRIS

It was a lot of fun to coach the girls we've played against the past four years. These are talented ...
BOB MORRIS

If you're not afraid to go after the record labels, it's not hard to get signed.
BOB MORRIS

We got off to a slow start offensively but picked it up in the second half. We had better ball movem...
BOB MORRIS

This is a very rigorous program that moves Michigan from one of the lower-level states to one of the...
BOB MORRIS

There is no such thing as national advertising. All advertising is local and personal. It's one ...
MORRIS HITE

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's...
MARK MORRIS

But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. T...
ERROL MORRIS

But I can say what interests me about documentary is the fact that you don't know how the story ...
ERROL MORRIS

Ever since the Dixie Chicks, the female perspective on country radio has been love songs. I love lov...
MAREN MORRIS

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies i...
JAN MORRIS

Without sulfites, wine may smell and taste funky or re-ferment in the bottle. Many distributors and ...
ROGER MORRIS

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or s...
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You h...
ERROL MORRIS

Technology is always a double-edged sword.
STEPHEN MORRIS

I guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going th...
HEATHER MORRIS

As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece i...
DICK MORRIS

Slow food, free-range, no steroids, eat local, and natural winemaking are all part of a general year...
ROGER MORRIS

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
ESTELLE MORRIS

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

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