W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.W. Somerset Maugham
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
Jacky Ickx -
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson -
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
Karl Lagerfeld -
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt -
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
Rafael Nadal -
I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
Manish Dayal -
I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky -
I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
Kate O'Brien -
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
Ted Rall -
How does one get bored of life?
Osric Chau -
If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
Vanessa Paradis -
Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
G. Willow Wilson -
My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
Sam Smith
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold -
Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president.
Chuck Todd -
You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.
Lois Lowry -
I'd never been published when I was young.
Jack Vance -
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham