Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for… — Plato Copy Share Image
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And… — John Gay Copy Share Image
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated.… — Ernest Legouve Copy Share Image
The riches of heaven, the honor which cometh from God only, and the pleasures at His right hand, the absence of all… — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. Like the idea of seeing your parents naked or having somebody go down… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too… — J. V. Cunningham Copy Share Image
These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory,… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
