W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Samuel Pepys
You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
Gary Sherman
Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
Mahmoud Abbas
I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.
Cara Delevingne
People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
Eden Hazard
In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
Oscar Isaac
Like, I mean I don't even know why you girls bother at this point. Like give it up, it's me. I win and you lose.
Nicki Minaj
I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
Jack Kirby
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.
Flannery O'Connor
Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
Yasmin Mogahed
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
Tom DeLonge
Box Car Racer
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
Richard Powers