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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Perfection Better Aim Dull

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Saying Believe Know Want Comfortable

Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.

Sleep Brain Alcohol Doing You Class

I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.

Love Patience I Am People Grace Am

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

Food Amazing Budget You Fast Eat

John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'

Stephen Merchant

Funny Hero Smart Me Chance Think

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

Freedom Together Religion Growing Up

NYC is a wonderland full of passionate music fans. Once I got over being intimidated by rock critics and finicky hipsters, I realized that NYC was a great place to play.

Music Great Place Play Rock Over

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

Mother Me Bad Down Never Beat

My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.

Morning Fire Me Moving Problem Get

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

Bruce Springsteen

Life Family Music Children Wife You

My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.

Pier Luigi Loro Piana

Animal Brother People Hair Society

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Justice More Just Than Demands

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