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
life happiness dream
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
inspirational life death
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
life drinking opportunity
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
tea cups life-is
Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.
book add life-is
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
love inspirational life
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
inspirational life motivational
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
life humility long
Life is a long lesson in humility.
life dream sacrifice
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
inspirational life feelings
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
believe child fairy falls somewhere time
Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
loves unhappy
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
believe fairies fairy falls says somewhere time
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
best
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.