We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well. — Juan Manuel Fangio Copy Share Image
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign. — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse. — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Why did you hit him? (Grace) Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian) Nice. You haven’t seen me in… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I think maybe the destructive pleasure got turned into the destructive pleasure of war (something we see still in the images of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested… — Vesanto Melina Copy Share Image
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. — John Locke Copy Share Image
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I like to fuck. Hard. I like to fuck slowly. I also enjoy making love. I like to be pleasured. I love… — Kathryn Perez Copy Share Image
It is a pleasure to see your name in the list of players that Barca want. — Ousmane Dembele Copy Share Image
I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure. — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really. — Arthur Darvill Copy Share Image
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image