W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
-
I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
-
Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
-
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
-
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
-
Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
-
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-
The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
-
My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
-
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
-
No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
-
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
-
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
-
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
-
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
-
Kindness is a calling. Caring about people is powerful. Love changes lives.
-
The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.
-
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
-
I always loved country music. But I didn't even know I could sing. I just knew I loved the music.
-
I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.
-
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
