P. L. Travers quote: "Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life."

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
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

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the wri...
P. L. TRAVERS

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management ...
PAT TRAVERS

I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current...
PAT TRAVERS

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
PAT TRAVERS

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
PAT TRAVERS

I've had this bar for 20 years and there have never been any problems. This is the biggest thing to ...
ARTHUR TRAVERS

I don't know where the shooting happened or how.
ARTHUR TRAVERS

That was the only unusual thing.
ARTHUR TRAVERS

We've never seen him in here before Saturday night.
ARTHUR TRAVERS

Why search when you can find? We're giving people quicker, more accurate results, pure and simple. A...
CHRIS TRAVERS

And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live ...
P.L. TRAVERS

It was not very long afterwards that Michael woke up one morning with a curious feeling inside him. ...
P.L. TRAVERS

The pieces in the trailer suggest you may get older but you can stay immature forever.
PETER TRAVERS

She's on the fringes of both films but manages to create indelible impressions in characters the scr...
PETER TRAVERS

There's a stink coming off the big-screen 'Dukes of Hazzard' that even fans of the TV series (1979 t...
PETER TRAVERS

I wish I had met them three or four years earlier. It saddens me to only have one year with them, be...
CHRIS TRAVERS

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
P.L. TRAVERS

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
P.L. TRAVERS

I hate being good.
-Mary Poppins
P.L. TRAVERS

It was pretty nasty underneath. Every rebound was physically contested.
CHRIS TRAVERS

[The] Corpse Bride ... The Oscar for Best Animated Feature belongs here.
PETER TRAVERS

Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."

The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother t...
P.L. TRAVERS

A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.
P.L. TRAVERS

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
P.L. TRAVERS

The City has for centuries been absolutely brilliant at defending its empire.
TONY TRAVERS

She's a good teammate, a good person in the water, and has a great attitude. If she goes, relaxes an...
MAUREEN TRAVERS

How much time she dropped is just phenomenal. For the level she's swimming at and the amount of time...
MAUREEN TRAVERS

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?
P.L. TRAVERS

The problem that the unions have is that, if in any way they are seen to be threatening the Olympic ...
TONY TRAVERS

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
P. L. BERGER

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.
L. P. JACKS

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.
P. L. DEBEVOISE

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter wh...
P. L. BERGER

Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L

Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L

Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L

Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L

आयुष्यात मला भावलेलं एक गुज सांगतो. उप...
पु. ल. देशपांडे [P. L. DESHPANDE]

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH

Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

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

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
L HILL

Dreams are stages where lies and truths intertwine in and endless dance. It is in the waking world t...
L. FILLOON

Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentia...
L. SWETENHAM

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE

Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
L BERTSCH

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are ...
L. ESTRANGE

We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
METTRIE L.

Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
METTRIE L.

Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L.

Life is full of endless possibilities.
METTRIE L.

The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
METTRIE L.

Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world wil...
LAURA L.

You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. DUARTE

You can’t just bring a regular human here! What if the girl runs and tells the whole world on that...
L. TAYLOR

I’m not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed,...
L. JAYNE

I think that the play is doing good work. And the volunteers, not only the audience, have grown from...
BOB L.

That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message.
BOB L.

We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
BOB L.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
METTRIE L.

Everyone has psychic abilities. It's just a matter of tapping into it.
METTRIE L.

There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringin...
METTRIE L.

It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
METTRIE L.

In the beginning, there was silence.
L. PENELOPE

Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien...
CAMILLE L.

Mais ça veut dire quoi d'abord "mon livre", ton livre ? Que tu l'as acheté ? Qu'on te l'a donné ?...
MéLISSANDRE L.

I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE

I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the p...
L. DUARTE

Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
JOEL L.

We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE

Film allows you to see life differently, or see life you've never experienced, ... When it does that...
L. SPARKS

The fair has worked hard to provide a family atmosphere over the past 10 years, ... We encourage eve...
L. SPARKS

The addition of Beanstalk to the Omnicom network will further expand the services that we offer clie...
L. HARRISON

It would have been easy simply to take another job somewhere else. But that wasn't Bernie Marcus. He...
L. HARRISON

What enables one person to launch a business at fifty when other people, faced with being laid off, ...
L. HARRISON

'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him
L. ESTRANGE

We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry
L. ESTRANGE

It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
L. ESTRANGE

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny...
L. ESTRANGE

It’s a mistake to act as though we’re not created equal.
It’s another mistake not to corr...
L. ANTHONY

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

Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

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Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

P. L. Travers

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