Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do…

“See? It's easy. Try. Try the exquisite pleasure of surprising yourself.”

— Jude Morgan

How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down. Breath a whisper, she came closer and tied one…

— Nalini Singh

It was an extreme pleasure to be a part of the MCU, and if and when the call comes for me to return to…

— Simu Liu

Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.

— Prodigy

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.”

— Nayef Al-Rodhan

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or…

— Norman Lock

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision,…

— Blaise Pascal

Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement…

— Janet Malcolm

I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not…

— Ray Stevenson

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of…

— Gautama Buddha

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

— William Deresiewicz

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap