The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens… — Dwayne Hickman Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The really important questions in human life are hardly touched upon by psychologists. Do liars come to believe their own lies? Is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“He walked for days, stopping at bars and restaurants whenever he felt thirsty, hungry or tired; mostly they were automatic and he… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
... do not listen to vain and empty talk, in which the majority of world-loving people spend their time, and do not… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality,… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the… — Toni Blake Copy Share Image
Listening to the people, being a minister that goes to the cities, to the squares, to the stations, to the hospitals, for… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things… — John Cage Copy Share Image
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society,… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
“What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right,… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer… — John Berger Copy Share Image