W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
Quotes to Explore
-
Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.
-
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
-
I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
-
I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
-
Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
-
I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
-
People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
-
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
-
Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
-
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
-
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
-
We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
-
I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
-
I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
-
Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
-
I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
-
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
-
Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?
-
We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture, everything that is truly mysterious is immediately dismissed.
-
Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
-
It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.
-
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
