W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.
Quotes to Explore
-
With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
-
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
-
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
-
Sharing is the essence of social media.
-
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
-
I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
-
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
-
There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
-
I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
-
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
-
Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
-
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
-
I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
-
I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
-
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
-
I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
-
Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
-
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
-
Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
-
Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
-
I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.
-
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.
-
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.
-
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.
