W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965

Topics

LifeFunnyBestYouAcceptAnything

I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied that in ballet class, you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class, you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable, and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

Jillian Hervey

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Global warming is a scientific fact as much as the hole in the ozone layer or Earth's orbit around the sun.

Johan Rockstrom

SunEarthGlobal WarmingGlobalHole

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Anita Loos

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When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Jeffrey Archer

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As a kid, New York was in my blood, and that was it. I got a chance to play for the Knicks, so it was cool, but it was towards the end of my career.

Metta World Peace

New YorkCoolChanceEndCareerNew

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

Soleil Moon Frye

TogetherI AmParentsMeKnowMore

I really like iconoclastic casting. I really do.

Rod Lurie

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We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.

Rowland Hill

GoodWayMoreBeingThanOther

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

Martin Sheen

CultureFocusPeopleSufferingWorld

I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's 'The Elephant's Child' and 'The Jungle Book.' Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

Michael Morpurgo

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Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.

Mo Ibrahim

TimeLongLong TimeAlwaysRadio

In modern society, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for men to be men. For masculinity to flourish in all its glory. For daring and risk-taking to live free, or at least relatively free. Fraternities are one of those places. They deserve to be protected.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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