P. L. Travers Quotes

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

P. L. Travers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: australian
  • Birth: August 9, 1899 - April 23, 1996

Topics

MyselfWritingAngelEndConquer

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.

Jimmy Page

IdentityGuitarTryingYouPlay

To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.

Melissa McCarthy

FootballMeWorldThinkFabricMost

It's football season; anything can happen.

Troy Brown

FootballHappenAnythingSeason

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Mary Kay Blakely

DivorceTripleEquivalentBypass

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Joseph Hall

LoveHateRestFoolsTroubleOwn

I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.

Bob Iger

WorkRideBikeWeekOutTwice

In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital in southern Afghanistan, Amerine's team called in airstrikes against advancing Taliban units and more or less obliterated a Taliban column of a thousand men that had been dispatched from Kandahar. It was the Taliban's final play to remain in power.

Peter Bergen

PowerMenCityTeamPlayMore

It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

Tim Ferriss

LifeMeConfidentMy LifeEasySame

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

Noam Chomsky

PeopleDangerousPrivacyUpGive

For the American economy, for any economy to grow, to truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half our population. We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection, and we've got to do it now. We cannot wait for them to learn how to be brave like I did when I was 33 years old.

Reshma Saujani

BraveWaitImperfectionGrowLearn

I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

Marian Keyes

WorkCreativeSleepMindWriting

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

Martin Filler

WorkGoodTruthArchitectureCity

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