James M. Barrie
James M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OMwas a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 May 1860
colour astonishing
astonishing splashes of colour
inspirational motivational inspiring
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
beautiful heart curves
She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
wrath tree usual
He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland, that everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them of vindictively as fast as possible.
stars silly sleep
Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
adventure rocks next
Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.
lonely stars children
Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.
school want solemn
I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.
adventure care woe
Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
adventure boys sea
Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.
wings have-faith peter
For to have faith, is to have wings" Peter Pan
kissing hands giving
She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.
long littles fairy
Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
way odd-things happens
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.