Top 100 Travers Quotes
#1. Travers didn't say anything, but she nodded in agreement. Jade silently thanked her for being quiet. He needed quiet right now.
Gregg Hurwitz
#2. Basing your identity on sexuality is like building a house on a foundation of pudding. - D. Travers Scott
Carol Queen
#3. The key to getting out of a bad relationship is being able to imagine something more fulfilling. --D. Travers Scott
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
#4. You all know what Class Seven does?" "You blow shit up," Travers supplied in a long-suffering voice that drew snickers from the rest of the group. "All kinds of shit," Everett growled with relish, the gleam returning to his eyes in full force.
Abigail Roux
#5. Une immense esprance a travers la terre', he read somewhere, and his comment was:'
and it's darned-well drowned everything worth having.
D.H. Lawrence
#6. La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge e, respecte e, de sire e a' travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.
Simone De Beauvoir
#7. Well, all right. Something in what you say, I suppose. Consider you treacherous worm and contemptible, spineless cowardly custard, but have booked Spink-Bottle. Stay where you are, then, and I hope you get run over by an omnibus. Love. Travers
P.G. Wodehouse
#8. ... and I'm thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain't bad for eleven.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#9. She sounds like you, Mary Poppins,' said Michael. 'So terribly pleased with herself!
P.L. Travers
#10. I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
Pat Travers
#11. And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.
P.L. Travers
#12. Child and serpent, star and stone - all one.
P.L. Travers
#13. Then, out of the blue, in a bookstore, he meets a woman who makes him laugh and, better yet, makes him want to make her laugh.
Peter Travers
#14. Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
P.L. Travers
#15. But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her.
P.L. Travers
#16. Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!
Peter Travers
#18. He could smell her crackling white apron and the faint flavour of toast that always hung about her so deliciously.
P.L. Travers
#19. The same substance composes us
the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star
we are all one, all moving to the same end.
P.L. Travers
#20. Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
P.L. Travers
#21. Folk music has always contained a concern for the human condition. And since it brings people into it from different points of view, that can help illuminate what a consensus might be to important issues.
Mary Travers
#22. Looking out at this quarter of a million people, ... I truly believed, at that moment, it was possible that human beings could join together to make a positive social change.
Mary Travers
#23. What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?
P.L. Travers
#24. Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
Henry Travers
#25. I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
P.L. Travers
#26. We hadn't sung together in six years. We realized that we'd missed each other personally and musically, so we decided to try a limited reunion tour. We wanted to work together enough to have it be a meaningful part of our lives, but not so much that it wouldn't be fun.
Mary Travers
#27. I'm not asleep," Jane reassured her. "I'm thinking about the story." "I heard every word," said Michael, yawning. The Park Keeper rocked, as if in a trance. "A Nex-plorer in disguise," he murmured, "sittin' in the midnight sun and climbin' the North Pole!" "Ouch!
P.L. Travers
#28. When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
P.L. Travers
#29. She paused, as though she were remembering events that happened hundreds of years before that time.
P.L. Travers
#30. Odds are you're going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank. It's a kick to watch Kevin Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand.
Peter Travers
#31. For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
P.L. Travers
#32. The Bay-man has made the worst and most worthless Transformers movie yet. I know, hard to believe, right? How could any summer blockbuster be as dull, dumb and soul-sucking as the first three Transformers movies? Step right up.
Peter Travers
#33. Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
P.L. Travers
#34. A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
P.L. Travers
#35. With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.
P.L. Travers
#36. There's great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.
Henry Travers
#37. We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!
P.L. Travers
#38. And when, at last, ... I stood in London with ten pounds in my hand - five of which I promptly lost - the ancestors dwelling in my blood who, all my life, had summoned me with insistent eldritch voices, murmured together, like contented cats.
P.L. Travers
#39. You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
P.L. Travers
#40. Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.
P.L. Travers
#41. Before Midnight is one of the years best movies. Full to the brim with humor, heartbreak, and ravishing romance. Richard Linklater directs with ardor and artistry. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy shine brilliantly. Heads up, Oscar. This ones a keeper.
Peter Travers
#42. Robertson Ay was sitting in the garden busily doing nothing.
P.L. Travers
#43. Amy Adams is the wish your heart makes ... she's wicked good.
Peter Travers
#45. Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.
P.L. Travers
#46. Michael knew now what was happening to him. He knew he was going to be naughty.
P.L. Travers
#47. There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
P.L. Travers
#48. We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
Pat Travers
#50. 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
#51. The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
P.L. Travers
#52. Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?
P.L. Travers
#53. Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P.L. Travers
#54. Carpet," said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.
P.L. Travers
#55. Mary Poppins is not a fairy-tale."
"She's even better!" said Alfred loyally. "She's a fairy-tale come true.
P.L. Travers
#57. And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him ... His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend
P.L. Travers
#58. So it was settled, and that was how the Banks family came to live at Number Seventeen, with Mrs. Brill to cook for them,
P.L. Travers
#59. I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P.L. Travers
#60. I have laughter and amazement, not search results. I have unexpected longings, not hierarchical ratings.
D. Travers Scott
#61. I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P.L. Travers
#62. Next time you must stay for tea and we'll all sit together on a rock and sing a song to the moon
P.L. Travers
#63. I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.
Mary Travers
#64. We've always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that's clean.
Mary Travers
#65. A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.
P.L. Travers
#66. Do you think that everything in the world is inside something else? My little Park inside the big one and the big one inside a larger one? Again and again? Away and away?" She waved her arm to take in the sky. "And to someone very far out there - do you think we would look like ants?" "Ants
P.L. Travers
#67. My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
P.L. Travers
#68. Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
P.L. Travers
#69. I can't be with someone and want them to think that I am worth it when I don't think I am. I need to find me.
Winter Travers
#70. My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
P.L. Travers
#71. No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.
Peter Travers
#72. Michael, you shall have some syrup of figs.
P.L. Travers
#73. More and more I've become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.
P.L. Travers
#74. Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.
Peter Travers
#75. Zach Galifianakis is a comic force of nature! He is terrific. He digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that gets under your skin. Just like the movie.
Peter Travers
#77. What is real and what is not? Can you tell me or I you? Perhaps we shall never know more than this - that to think a thing is to make it true.
P.L. Travers
#78. You can't expect two stars to drop in the same field in one lifetime
P.L. Travers
#79. Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.
Mary Travers
#80. I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!
P.L. Travers
#81. she wore so many brooches and necklaces and earrings that she jingled and jangled just like a brass band.
P.L. Travers
#82. Pooh, he's a ninkypoop!" "How do you know?" asked Jane, very interested. "I know because I heard Daddy call him one this morning!" said Michael, and he laughed at Andrew very rudely. "He is not a nincompoop," said Mary Poppins. "And that is that.
P.L. Travers
#83. It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.
Mary Travers
#84. I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.
P.L. Travers
#85. I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.
Mary Travers
#87. If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
P.L. Travers
#88. Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.
Peter Travers
#89. I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
Pat Travers
#90. I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
Pat Travers
#91. Mary Poppins was very vain and liked to look her best. Indeed, she was quite sure that she never looked anything else.
P.L. Travers
#92. There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.
Mary Travers
#93. 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.
P.L. Travers
#94. If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we're going to have to start with children.
Mary Travers
#96. 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
#97. The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.
Peter Travers
#99. Mary Poppins never told anybody anything. . . .
P.L. Travers
#100. When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.
Mary Travers
