W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes to Explore
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
Patrick Wilson
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
Karl Liebknecht
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Ovid
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In war, discipline can do more than fury.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.
Ed Askew
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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
Nelson Mandela
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Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.
Patrick Ness
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Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham