W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
Hanna Rosin
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac D'Israeli
That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.
Felicia Day
Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
Wayne Rogers
When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'
Edgar Wright
Google was like the only company that was like, 'We're making so much money; let's take a picture of every street in the world.' Nobody does that.
Ben Silbermann
One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
G. Tyler Miller
Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.
China Mieville
Keep my planets in orbit,
Never forfeit or quit,
Move forward...
I talk with the awkward slang,
I walk with the Wu-Tang.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
W. Somerset Maugham
