Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything… — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass?… — David Salle Copy Share Image
It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are… — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down… — Socrates Copy Share Image
My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets… — Jim Sullivan Copy Share Image
I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Anytime I am asked to use my creativity as a way to be of service, I consider it an opportunity I cannot… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love, sex, food, friendship, art, play, beauty and the simple pleasure of a cup of tea are all well and good, but… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking… — Dorothy Stang Copy Share Image
I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I feel that it means a lot to the people of Iran that my film is represented at the Oscars, and it… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being… — Margaret Way Copy Share Image
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in… — Rene Crevel Copy Share Image
![“[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we don't find any sympathy or pleasure, for example, in a modern painting, are likely to blame our own ignorance of the history and theory of painting. But nobody pretends to like a…” quote by Chris Ware](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a24/chris-ware-8123_art_comics-is-one-of-the-last-havens-for-hon_1013449.jpg)
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