P. L. Travers Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
-
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
-
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
-
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
-
The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
-
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
-
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
-
Good design should be honest.
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
-
Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
-
The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
-
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
-
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
-
My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
-
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
-
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
-
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
-
I'm not the girl next door.
-
We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.
-
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
-
To be very sincere, I don't feel legit being an inspiration of anything.
-
Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small.
