W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeBookMy LifeLiteratureBecome

Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.

Jessie Buckley

LifeYouConnectionSometimesMeet

The way I need to look, it's a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.

Andreja Pejic

GirlBeautifulMirrorMyselfHappy

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

Anatoly Chubais

GovernmentCityTeamStartLevel

I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.

John Lydon

PeopleCrazyRiskCrazy PeopleSee

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

Angela Featherstone

HomeChildrenSchoolChildParents

Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I'm nice, but I'm very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.

Missy Elliott

WomanI AmMeStrongPushDown

Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.

Joyce Brothers

GratitudeThankfulChildrenBornUs

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding you rather than you guiding them.

Janet Varney

LoveFeelYouFallCreateLucky

I think miniatures are still superior to a lot of computer graphics.

Douglas Trumbull

ThinkSuperiorComputerStillLot

The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes.

Chris Squire

HistoryReflectYesUpComeIdea

God truly had a better plan for me than I had imagined. You never know what life has in store.

Phyllis Smith

LifeGodMeBetterPlanYou

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'

Tyra Banks

BabyOldYearsHipBeforeAbout

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