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Constantinos P. Cavafis
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Now they've come before Jerusalem.
Passions, avar...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving dece...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today.
Why is...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Επιθυμίες
Σαν σώματα ωραία νεκρών που δεν εγέρασαν CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Ithaka
As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS «Ακόμη δεν λες να το καταλάβεις; Είναι αγάπη, Κρυσταλλί...
Γιώτα Παπαδημακοπούλου Το ορκίζομαι", είπε η άλλη μητέρα. "Το ορκίζομαι στο μνή�...
NEIL GAIMAN Οι υπολογιστές είναι άχρηστοι, μόνο απαντήσεις μπορού�...
PABLO PICASSO Δεν φοβάμαι τους ηλεκτρονικούς υπολογιστές. Φοβάμαι τ�...
ISAAC ASIMOV Tα κομπιούτερ περιέχουν τόσο νοημοσύνη, όσο τα στερεοφ�...
ARNO ALLAN PENZIAS Ex hoc momento pendet aeternitas.
(Από αυτή τη στιμγή κρέμεται η αιω...
Επιγραφή ηλιακού ρολογιού, Μιντλ ΄Τεμπλ, Λονδίνο Διαφθορά δεν είναι μόνο το να δίνεις χρήματα κάτω από τ...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Το μεγαλύτερο ευτύχημα στον κόσμο είναι η αδυναμία του...
H.P. LOVECRAFT Back in the Aerie she popped her lips percussively as she examined her booty. 'P-ilfering P-adgett's...
STEVEN GOULD Thank you for joining me today, Hoodians! I wish you all peace and poverty!”
“Pros...
CHRIS COLFER
im still waiting
for that kiss when
my leg
[(P o p s)]*
MEGAN If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you liv...
KEVIN DEYOUNG He gave them what they demanded of him, he obeyed the command, but not sullenly or diffidently, and ...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.
MELINA MARCHETTA The fact he came back from two sets down is nothing short of a minor miracle ... he's made believers...
CONSTANTINOS GREGORAS You cannot spell prosperity, without i-s and p-r-o-p-e-r-t-y
BRADLEY J. HARRISON Coach P is a firecracker,
CHESTER PITTS Really, Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabi...
J.K. ROWLING Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK ...they make us dependent on a social system that exploits our energies for its own purposes. ...If ...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond pr...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swel...
KHALED HOSSEINI He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.
BRANDON SANDERSON All I could think was that right there, in ever passing second, was the future winding itself own. N...
SARAH DESSEN Laughter is a rescue. p.204
GLORIA STEINEM Alex P. Keaton is his role model.
ANDREA CARUSO When you are investing in J. P. Morgan,
BRAD HINTZ We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
RICHARD PAUL EVANS Και από την άλλη, οι πολεμικές αυτές γυναίκες δεν αρκού...
MIGUEL ÁNGEL ASTURIAS Η δυνατή γροθιά κατά την γνώμη μου, δεν είναι αυτή που θ...
Γιώργος Μ. A P/E is meaningless by itself. A P/E has to look at the price you're paying for earnings but you ha...
KEVIN CARON A P/E is meaningless by itself. A P/E has to look at the price you're paying for earnings but you ha...
KEVIN CARON J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.
T. J. MILLER Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25
MICHAEL E. PORTER Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101.
RICHARD ROHR Adding the P&G infrastructure is like putting a growth hormone into Gillette, and that in turn helps...
GARY STIBEL What about Clinton?" I asked. "He's pretty interesting.""Ugh." Dad looked disgusted. "That gu...
TOM PERROTTA I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK Lies and deceit are like paint stripper on a car it burns into the metal and like that. It destroys ...
GARY F EVANS... —Mais, quelle que soit l'importance de l'événement, dès qu'il est écrit sur le papier, il ne f...
YōKO OGAWA It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should...
SARAH DESSEN Never allow your cirumstances, to determine your future.
Sharock P.
SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P. The P-III is an evolutionary advance, not a revolutionary one.
DEAN MCCARRON P. I. on a Hot Tin Roof: A Talba Wallis Novel,
JULIE SMITH Perhaps, Moody's was just being honest. S&P was being kind.
JAMES LAGO HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
KEN BLANCHARD HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose.
KEN BLANCHARD The only GPA of interest is: G=Getting, P=Priorities, A=Accomplished.
JOHN LEACH Doorman: Good morning Mr. Peaknis
Mr. P.: Go to hell
RACHEL CAINE Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26
MICHAEL E. PORTER Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
BERNIE WORRELL Oh Christ. Put me back with the zombies, Strawberry Shortcake." [p. 411]
RICHARD KADREY H πιο συναρπαστική και ίσως η πιο σημαντική από όλες αυ�...
ΤΟΜ ΡΟΜΠΙΝΣ Ο θυμός άλλο πράμα. Ο άνθρωπος κοκκινίζει, φωνάζει, κάν�...
KONSTANTINOS THEOTOKIS "Η Ζωή Και Ο Θάνατος Του Καραβέλα" Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Overall the capital markets were not strong for the company [J. P. Morgan],
ANDREW COLLINS "Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.
If you know where you are going, you are not learning. (p. 16)
MIKE HIGTON P-53 has been called the guardian of the genome for the cell.
JACK ROTH In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, ...
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES To say thank you is a short way to express gratitude for all things .If you say thank you it is alwa...
GARY F EVANS... How do you like my rhinestone fishing pole?
DOLLY PARTON Real artists ship.
STEVE JOBS They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even ...
JODI PICOULT You ate my dog, you undead freak!”
Hey! Watch the slander. I hear the acceptable term is ‘c...
ADAM P. KNAVE I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mund...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
DONALD TRUMP People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God." (p.207)
ALDOUS HUXLEY When the wheels are coming off the bus no p/e is too low,
GEORGE GILBERT We do not view ourselves as DP World employees. We are P&O employees.
FRANK FOGARTY Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund?
FRANK ARMSTRONG We still see IBM attractively valued at a 13 percent discount to S&P multiple.
ANDREW NEFF [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)
JOHN GREEN Quite a few companies are trying to sell [distributed computing] under the p-to-p banner. While I th...
IAN CLARKE I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk.
RACHEL PLATTEN You've got to S-M-I-L-E
To be H-A-Double-P-Y
SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25
MICHAEL E. PORTER But for some reason I have not yet become a fish. - The Box Man, p.36
KōBō ABE R-P is the county's zoning tool . . . of choice for the vast majority of the county.
DON CHARLES P. Diddy gave me his valet ticket once... because he thought I was the valet lady.
SELENA GOMEZ If the surviving company is French, it won't be eligible for the S&P 500 index.
DAVID GUARINO We know that they have had the drawings for P-2 centrifuge and they've publicized that.
GARY SICK The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)
CHRISTINA BURRUS Throughout the 1990s, the level of executive compensation increased dramatically, especially in S&P ...
MARTIN CONYON ...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.
IMMANUEL KANT Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off ag...
NICK HORNBY If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
JOHN UPDIKE Wrath dragged Beth into his arms and hugged her hard, talking in that other language again. When he ...
J.R. WARD If you look at our portfolio that we run here with a three-year track record, basically it's equal t...
PHIL DOW Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - p
S. J. PERELMAN [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
SAMUEL BUTLER
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Before Jerusalem
Now they've come before Jerusalem.
Passions, avar...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving dece...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today.
Why is...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Επιθυμίες
Σαν σώματα ωραία νεκρών που δεν εγέρασαν CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Ithaka
As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS The fact he came back from two sets down is nothing short of a minor miracle ... he's made believers...
CONSTANTINOS GREGORAS As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
P. CHIDAMBARAM The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET ...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P. I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH WhatEver May Be The Problems, Dont Be Afraid, Think That They Are The Questions Infront Of You As An...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE To become a millionaire you must become a Lion, you can't even spell millionaire without the word Li...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their...
P. J. O'ROURKE We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going ...
TARAJI P. HENSON Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. LOVECRAFT We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. LOVECRAFT The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P. J. O'ROURKE The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
SALMON P. CHASE What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
SALMON P. CHASE The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several pa...
SALMON P. CHASE All men are born equally free.
SALMON P. CHASE Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the inte...
SALMON P. CHASE What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which...
SALMON P. CHASE The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am read...
SALMON P. CHASE The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot...
SALMON P. CHASE Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the wor...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly h...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the g...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of imm...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has i...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitmen...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
TARAJI P. HENSON I feel like we all have our skeletons.
TARAJI P. HENSON I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
TARAJI P. HENSON With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you,...
TARAJI P. HENSON I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or b...
TARAJI P. HENSON I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz stor...
TARAJI P. HENSON When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to...
TARAJI P. HENSON Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes w...
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm nothing without God.
TARAJI P. HENSON Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
TARAJI P. HENSON I don't ever want to feel complacent.
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by you...
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn mor...
TARAJI P. HENSON I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no ...
TARAJI P. HENSON I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do...
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
TARAJI P. HENSON It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies i...
TARAJI P. HENSON A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, m...
TARAJI P. HENSON At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
TARAJI P. HENSON Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
TARAJI P. HENSON The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human ...
KEVIN P. RYAN Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,&...
W. P. KINSELLA I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. KINSELLA Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n...
W. P. KINSELLA Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. KINSELLA I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard ...
W. P. KINSELLA Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If y...
W. P. KINSELLA If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. KINSELLA I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it...
W. P. KINSELLA I don't believe in the afterlife.
W. P. KINSELLA The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like bird...
W. P. KINSELLA Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by...
W. P. KINSELLA A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
J. P. MORGAN When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. MORGAN Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ...
J. P. MORGAN If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
J. P. MORGAN No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty...
J. P. MORGAN I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. DONLEAVY To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. DONLEAVY Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. DONLEAVY If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the ...
JOHN P. KOTTER Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season,...
P. T. BARNUM One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
FRANKLIN P. JONES Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jur...
P. J. O'ROURKE To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as...
P. T. BARNUM Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. LOVECRAFT As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder...
JAMES P. HOFFA Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P. T. BARNUM In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in...
P. T. BARNUM There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
P. T. BARNUM Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P. T. BARNUM Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lig...
P. T. BARNUM No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can u...
P. T. BARNUM Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
P. T. BARNUM Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar ge...
P. T. BARNUM Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
P. T. BARNUM Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. BARNUM There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning a...
P. T. BARNUM True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little l...
P. T. BARNUM He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
P. T. BARNUM Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
P. T. BARNUM Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. BARNUM I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a projec...
P. N. ELROD Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way ...
P. J. HARVEY There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doi...
P. J. HARVEY I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or ...
P. J. HARVEY I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
P. J. HARVEY My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'...
P. J. HARVEY I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I...
P. J. HARVEY I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
P. J. HARVEY There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their ...
P. J. HARVEY People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.
P. J. HARVEY It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore...
P. J. HARVEY Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. ...
P. J. HARVEY I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like ...
P. J. HARVEY There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. HARVEY People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B...
P. J. HARVEY I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. HARVEY I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it di...
P. J. HARVEY I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information...
P. J. HARVEY I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni...
P. J. HARVEY I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, beca...
P. J. HARVEY I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
P. J. HARVEY Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops ...
P. G. WODEHOUSE It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thou...
P. G. WODEHOUSE I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I...
P. G. WODEHOUSE Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. WODEHOUSE