W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

W. Somerset Maugham

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• Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Faith

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Me
  • Day
  • Focus

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
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• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Story
  • Movies

• I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Movies

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dumb
  • Get

• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Secret
  • Vice
  • Gluttony

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • WIld
  • Sheriff

• Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Baseball

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Childhood

• A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking, 'Oh, wait - doing what they do normally is really hard.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • People
  • Comedic actors

• The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Others

• It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

  

  Epictetus
  • Nature
  • Wise

• Her desire set her apart from the pack. Now, she has an aura that floats around, and that's intimidating.

  

  Pam Shriver
  • Desire
  • Around
  • Floats

• Be ready, be prepared, be alert and then everybody around you will notice and they will want to share their skills with you even more. You're showing that you're enthusiastic, you care and that you're dedicated. It's not always easy, but if you've got a passion and a desire to do something then your natural energy will get you through.

  

  William Katt
  • Energy
  • Desire
  • Passion

• Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Community
  • Desire
  • Habit