W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.

Patrick Ness
- People
- Great
- Songs
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

Madonna Breakfast Club
- Time
- World
- Important
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Ed Smith
- Black
- Community
No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

Walter Kirn
- You
- Air
- Matter
My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

Eddie Marsan
- Time
- Different
- Done
The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

Felix Dennis
- Problem
- Impossible
- Rich