Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“I slapped her across the face. I didn’t think about it, I just did it, and few things in my adult life… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire. — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure. — Karl Blossfeldt Copy Share Image
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself,… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of… — Serena Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. — Julie Newmar Copy Share Image
I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure. — Celeste Holm Copy Share Image
There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection. — Seth Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure of learning how to wrestle long matches and use psychology. — Mark Henry Copy Share Image
