I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in… — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers. — Merle Kessler Copy Share Image
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it. — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
“And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when… — John H. Lienhard Copy Share Image
“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they… — Michele Landis Dauber Copy Share Image
Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from… — David Shi Copy Share Image
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What gives you pleasure and joy? Let those be the things that lead you forward in life. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“The erotic pleasure was starting to take on a life of its own for all three” — Bat Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Life gives pleasure only to those who explore themselves and discover their strength.” — Rakesh Wadhwani Copy Share Image
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For …… you are treasured Today and all the while. — Janet Horne Copy Share Image
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's been a pleasure to bring my talents to south beach now on to Memphis. — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. — Francoise Bertaut de Motteville Copy Share Image
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
