Polly Gray Peaky Blinders Quotes

Everyone's a whore, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves. ~ Tommy Shelby (Peaky Blinders)

Peaky Blinders"? ~ Anonymous

Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy. ~ Rumi

The one who asks questions does not lose his way. ~ Polly Shulman

Are you out of your candy wrapper? ~ Polly Shulman

(He was obviously even less impressed by the guinea pig thing than I realised.) ~ Polly James

I would never go home again in quite the same way, but that was okay too. ~ Polly Horvath

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
Polly B. Berends ~ Polly Berrien Berends

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world. ~ Miriam Makeba

The only really interesting things about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart. ~ Polly Horvath

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point. ~ Victoria Moran

It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look. ~ Polly Horvath

My home is in whatever town I'm booked. ~ Polly Adler

I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant. ~ Polly Horvath

Smoking ages you quicker than almost anything else. ~ Polly Bergen

I make paper dolls with deep personal issues. ~ Polly M. Law

It is never a bad thing to take up your fair share of space, said Mr. Bunny ambiguously. ~ Polly Horvath

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past. ~ Carson McCullers

Passion + Persistence + Patience = Success. ~ Polly Letofsky

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps. ~ Polly Horvath

Everyone knows that only children smile out of sheer delight. In a real adult smile, there is always something other than happiness. ~ Polly Rosenwaike

And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth. ~ Polly Horvath

If you never fail, that means you never tried to do something impossible. ~ Polly Whittaker

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies. ~ Polly Toynbee

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. ~ George Lucas

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently. ~ Polly Horvath

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists. ~ Polly Horvath

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options. ~ David Suzuki

All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to. ~ Polly Horvath

Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible? ~ Polly Shulman

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had? ~ Polly Shulman

Julian wouldn't wish for his daughter to be anything other than extraordinary: for her, kingdoms would be renounced, incurable diseases cured, world records broken. ~ Polly Samson

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability. ~ Polly Toynbee

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. ~ Polly Toynbee

I couldn't live my reputation down - all right then, I'd live up to it. ~ Polly Adler

How lovely they were, those long summer nights: the words and the silences, the sunsets and the stars. ~ Polly Samson

I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life. ~ Polly Allen Mellen

I want the truth, and I want it now. ~ Polly Holyoke

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek-the finding part is up to God. ~ Polly Berrien Berends

My mother smoked too but I guessed by now she had quit the habit, which was, I supposed, one of the advantages of being shipwrecked. ~ Polly Horvath

A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men. ~ Matthew Polly

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb ~ Matthew Polly

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live. ~ Eleanor Porter

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float. ~ Polly Horvath

Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful. ~ Polly Samson

Your heart often knows things before your mind does. ~ Polly Adler

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. ~ Polly Toynbee

We just need to remove the blinders from our eyes to have a neutral, level-headed and logical viewpoint based on self-evaluation. ~ Prem Jagyasi

and I had spent a few days debating whether or not Michael was actually gay or just English. With the advent of metrosexuals and Europeans running around Manhattan, one never knows. ~ Polly Courtney

We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining, said Mrs. Bunny. ~ Polly Horvath

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with. ~ Polly Horvath

I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't. ~ Polly Horvath

The sayers do not know and the knowers do not say. ~ Matthew Polly

Good," said Dr. Rust. "Take Elizabeth up to stack 9 and show her the ropes."
"But the ropes are on stack 2."
"I meant metaphorically. ~ Polly Shulman

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. ~ Polly Toynbee

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with. ~ Polly Bergen

Even people who know nothing about Greece know something about Greece. The very name sparks visions of ancient civilizations that dominated the Mediterranean. ~ Polly Letofsky

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death. ~ Polly Toynbee

The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn't believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful. ~ Matthew Polly

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit. ~ Polly Horvath

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!' ~ Polly Bergen

Style doesn't have seasons. ~ Polly Allen Mellen

I put the blinders on and just work as hard as I can, and hopefully I'll just continue to be a better player. ~ Dustin Pedroia

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth. ~ Polly Adler

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe. ~ Polly Horvath

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. ~ Polly Toynbee

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay. ~ Polly Horvath

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves. ~ Polly Berrien Berends

When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all. ~ Polly Bergen

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila! ~ Polly Allen Mellen

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. ~ Polly Berrien Berends

It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. ~ Polly Adler

[ ... ] it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone. ~ Matthew Polly

I was convinced I felt as strongly about Jane Austen's books as Ashleigh had ever felt about any of her crazes, but my love was deep and silent - and therefore easily overshadowed. ~ Polly Shulman

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless. ~ Polly Toynbee

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears. ~ Maya Angelou

The secret I've lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that's always my closet. ~ Polly Bergen

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving. ~ Polly Berrien Berends

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt. ~ Polly Berrien Berends

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure. ~ Polly Berrien Berends

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. ~ Norman Cousins

A house is not a home. ~ Polly Adler

The successful people seem to have blinders on. Everything is straight ahead. They go forward and know exactly what they're going to do once they've made up their mind to do it, and by God they don't look sideways. ~ Jack Nicklaus

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. ~ Polly Toynbee

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense. ~ Polly Toynbee

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place. ~ Polly Bergen

Isn't that dangerous?" I objected. "What if somebody used it on people - what if they put it on replace and turned us all into fictional characters?"
"How do you know they haven't?" asked Marc. ~ Polly Shulman

The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies. ~ Polly Toynbee

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing. ~ Polly Bergen

Mrs. Richards: Girl, there's no paper in my room. Why don't you check these things? That's what you're being paid for, isn't it?
Polly: We don't put it in the rooms.
Mrs. Richards: What?
Polly: Well, we keep it in the lounge.
Mrs. Richards: [aghast] In the lounge?
Polly: I'll get you some. Do you want plain ones or ones with our address on it?
Mrs. Richards: Address on it?
Polly: How many sheets? Well, how many are you going to use?
Mrs. Richards: Manager! ~ John Cleese

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years. ~ Polly Berrien Berends

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives. ~ Polly Berrien Berends

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly. ~ Polly Toynbee

Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket ~ Andy Gray

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. ~ Polly Toynbee

In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers. ~ Polly Toynbee

We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side. ~ Polly Shulman

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis. ~ Gray Davis

You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself. ~ Gwynne Shotwell