W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeEasyLateKnowSayHow

We felt a responsibility to the McDonald brothers and to Ray Kroc to be as factual as possible. We didn't have a responsibility to make anyone look good or anybody look bad, just to try our best to be honest.

John Lee Hancock

GoodResponsibilityBestLookBad

My natural state is an outsider, and no matter what group I'm in or where I am, I've always felt like I'm outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

Michael Burry

I AmGroupMatterOutsideAlways

I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

Sirio Maccioni

HappinessTodayHappyTomorrowStory

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

Michael Keaton

WorldPlayLostSeriouslyWayGot

You can have the best technology, but you if have a corrupted, radicalized, bribed official that has access to the plane to put the bomb in the cargo, as what happened in Sharm el-Sheikh, that's a real problem.

Michael McCaul

TechnologyBestProblemYouReal

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

Diego Luna

LieYoungNowUsedPaidGet

What I was most curious about was why Armstrong, a top U.S. Navy test pilot, flying the most advanced aircraft in the world, would want to join the astronaut corps in 1962, which included chimpanzees and monkeys.

Douglas Brinkley

CuriousWorldFlyingWantTestNavy

The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.

Conor Oberst

LifePlaceWayMoreStayThan

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

Bobby Riggs

LifeRocksWantHandPorchMint

There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.

Armando Iannucci

MoneyCriticismWrongWillMore

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

Annie Baker

PersonalityWritingUpControlling

I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.

Allison Tolman

Ten YearsYearsThingsWorkingBeen

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