W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes to Explore
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
Taye Diggs -
From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.
M. J. Hyland -
I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
Barry Zito -
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
Harry Caray -
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
Manning Marable -
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
Barry Jenkins -
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
Jack Welch -
I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
Halsey -
I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
Oscar Isaac -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
J. R. Smith -
I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.
Cara Delevingne -
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
Ian MacKaye -
Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
Zoe Saldana -
I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
Ted Sarandos -
I feel so much better at 170, man.
Donald Cerrone
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New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.
Astra Taylor -
Infidelity is consumption of the soul.
Karl G. Maeser -
I like high impact movies.
Kathryn Bigelow -
Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.
W. Somerset Maugham