W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes to Explore
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
P. J. O'Rourke -
A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Dan Rather -
Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
Hailey Gates -
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar -
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferber -
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
Dan Hill
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal -
I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
Cameron Diaz -
I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
Madeleine Albright -
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
Jack Kilby -
I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
Paris Hilton -
I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
Rachel Kushner -
I don't run behind authority.
Naguib Sawiris -
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
Jack Kemp -
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers - it wasn't a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
Kacy Hill -
I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
Nas -
You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
Omar Khayyam -
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
Joel Kinnaman -
I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
Dan Phillips -
The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.
W. Somerset Maugham