Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
“To look at him was to want him. To see him was to ache to touch him. He had been built to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“Do we always do the things that God would take pleasure, or that we do things we think God would take pleasure.” — Jestoni Revealed Copy Share Image
“Killing a man is indeed a pleasure unmatched in this world. Perhaps it’s a pleasure we could share.” — Samuel Snoek-Brown Copy Share Image
I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed… — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then?… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of… — Marvin Minsky 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
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning 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
“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
It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the… — Vlatko Stefanovski 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
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
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
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards. — Thalassa Cruso Copy Share Image
Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious. — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
