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Ideas Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is…
- The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most…
- I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which…
- He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
- I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It…
- It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.…
- I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which…
- But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe