Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
To take estrogen or not to take estrogen: That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer The sweat and… — Sonya Sones Copy Share Image
“A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I just love coming to Vegas. There is always a good energy here; the minute you get off the plane, it is… — Kelly Carlson Copy Share Image
Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Our moods may shift, but God's doesn't. Our minds may change, but God's doesn't. Our devotion may falter, but God's never does.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
It's been so much a part of my life the thinking that I go through is crucial. I found that if I… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
No matter what, I'm trying to have fun and, depending on the mood, fun can be on a roller coaster and playing… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
In a mood like I just don't give a damn. That is how to drop it sometime, but do it in a… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I don't generally like things that are too pedestrian. But at the same time, and if I'm in the right mood, hey… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then… — Jim Krusoe Copy Share Image
One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you're feeling a lot… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
It was really just the name that inspired me: Rainsboro. It's located near Rocky Fork State Park. I have probably driven through… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
