Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“I’m yours.” He knows something about the surrender of ownership, the delegation of will, turns me on, and the pressure of pleasure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the ability to draw us into new dreams of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I love every inch of you," I tell her. "Every part of your body that makes you nervous gives me pleasure. I… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have… — Barry Sanders Copy Share Image
There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
For me writing is a long, hard, painful process, but it is addictive, a pleasure that I seek out actively. My advice… — Laurence Yep Copy Share Image
Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the… — Ori Hofmekler Copy Share Image
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
You're an angel," she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it… — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In all our losses, all our gains, In all our pleasures, all our pains, The life of life is: Love remains. In… — Theodore Tilton Copy Share Image
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In # France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“My name,” I whispered in her ear, and she shivered with pleasure. “Say my name again. Not in anger, or disgust, but… — J.J. McAvoy Copy Share Image
A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
We spend our lives trying to please people and in the end they don't care about you. Love yourself and pay attention… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which… — Isra Copy Share Image
It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
