One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
It was an absolute pleasure just to be able to tell my grandkids, 'Yep. I Superman-punched Vince McMahon right in the face… — Roman Reigns Copy Share Image
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out… — Jeff Lynne Copy Share Image
“Pleasure is ‘suffering’ (vedna) and pain is distress as well. If pleasure is ‘suffering’, it cannot be considered a pleasure. If pleasure… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure -… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
“To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I think, ultimately you know in your heart how much work you've done. You know what you're doing, if you're being honest… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
“If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways,… — Savannah Page Copy Share Image
I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that… — David Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree… — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
"Community" came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them… — Tom Tryon Copy Share Image
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
“One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it… — Alexandre Dumas fils Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that… — Robert South Copy Share Image
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot.… — Eva Green Copy Share Image