Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and… — Kimberly Elise Copy Share Image
“She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the spirit and makes it possible… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on… — Kajol Copy Share Image
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that… — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the… — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
