W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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W. Somerset Maugham

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• I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Good
  • Body
  • Yourself

• If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Upset

• You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Risk

• The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Done
  • Deadline
  • Options

• To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Politics
  • Identity

• Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • Paint
  • Before

• For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Look
  • First
  • Characters

• Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Kids

• Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Things

• Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Great
  • She
  • Writer

• I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Successful

• Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Up
  • Expectations

• It's not enough to trade a prison of powerlessness for the pain of an empty stomach. But history shows that governments of the people and by the people and for the people more powerful in delivering prosperity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • History
  • Pain

• He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Imagination

• Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

  

  John Howard
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Political

• When I started in video I was one of two or three dozen video artists in 1970. And now, to paraphrase Andy Warhol, everyone's a video artist. Video, through your cellphone and camcorder, has become a form of speech, and speech is not James Joyce. It's great, and to be celebrated, but it has to find its own level.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Great

• The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

  

  Daniel B. Shapiro
  • Reality
  • Painting
  • Imagery

• If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Pain
  • Compassion
  • Laugh

• Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Time
  • Red
  • Bird

• Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham