W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

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• Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • People
  • Real
  • Community

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Like
  • Dance

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Death
  • Man
  • Die

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Wealth
  • Tax

• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Future
  • Moon
  • Diva

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Inside

• I believe that the topic of chemical weapons is critically important for international peace and security, and I take note of the ongoing debate over what course of action should be taken by the international community. All those actions should be taken within the framework of the U.N. Charter, as a matter of principle.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Community

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Me
  • Never

• Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Women
  • Children
  • Own

• When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became 'A Time to Kill.'

  

  John Grisham
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Trying
  • Walking
  • Blood

• Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • She
  • Decision
  • Fate

• My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Family
  • Father
  • College

• I love good TV shows, but it's not what I do. I kind of sculpt my films as I go along. And TV is all about writing, so you just shoot, shoot, shoot what's written.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Good
  • Writing

• Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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