W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
Edith Pearlman
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
Owen Hart
I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
Nadine Velazquez
We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
Larry Hogan
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
Saint Ignatius
There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.
Mark Haddon
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Clarence Day
The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere.
Nicholas Bloom
I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?
Neneh Cherry
The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.
Lesley Gore
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. Somerset Maugham