W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

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• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Best
  • Honor

• From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Time
  • Important
  • Better

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Yourself

• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Small
  • Very
  • Feet

• What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Space
  • End
  • Clean

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Tax
  • Clarity
  • Incentives

• The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Protected
  • Profits

• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Government
  • Innovation

• I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Direction
  • Eating

• Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Song
  • End

• Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

  

  Randall Munroe
  • World
  • Game
  • Man

• It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Country
  • Think
  • Want

• And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.

  

  Kenneth Blackwell
  • Free
  • Proud

• When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.

  

  Lee Gutkind
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Job
  • Gay
  • Daughter

• Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Women
  • Children
  • Bearing

• Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Women