W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
Abel Ferrara -
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
Nancy Sinatra -
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
Tamara Mellon -
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
Jack Keane -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Samuel Butler -
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Van Morrison -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
Ed Rendell -
Nothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye West -
Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
T. D. Jakes -
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
Gabriel Basso -
Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
Mallory Ortberg
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable -
Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.
Alvin Plantinga -
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
W. Somerset Maugham