The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the… — Beck Copy Share Image
Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer. — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all -why should I? Even though they were not considered top… — John Agar Copy Share Image
It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
When we did 'The Fast Show Live,' we got a great deal of affection from the audience. That feeds your enjoyment and… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any… — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention… — Warren Zevon Copy Share Image
“Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are… — Phillip Gary Smith Copy Share Image
Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won't spend my time gazing at… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest. — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
I used to run the band hockey pool - regular season and playoffs. I would write weekly reports, which were meant to… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
“There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph,… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We want to encourage enjoyment. We want the players to measure themselves against the best and to think positively. — Hansi Flick Copy Share Image
Without any hope you cannot talk about suffering. If you talk about suffering without hope it's enjoying our euthanization. I tried to… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come. — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental… — James Madison Copy Share Image
God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping… — Bethany Hamilton Copy Share Image
“How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image