It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than… — Kelly Bishop Copy Share Image
The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a… — Spartacus Copy Share Image
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I appeared with many leading men. But working with Cary Grant was different from working with other actors. He was much more… — Irene Dunne Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding… — Jerry Wexler Copy Share Image
The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“When the baby emerged and I saw her, black-haired, a violet organism that, full of energy, writhed and wailed, I felt a… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
President Karzai is an incredibly kind and decent man. I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he genuinely cares for his… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm, that no… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
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