I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that -… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We all [on Aladdin] have a passion to perform and a lot of us trained to do this and there's a certain… — Adam Jacobs Copy Share Image
The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
I feel a huge gratification out of being right. To see my projects connect in a way in which the audience is… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I get the most gratification in life by feeling like I'm doing something purposeful and meaningful and makes a difference to other… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Copy Share Image
Be nice to your hairstylist. It's an instant gratification! It doesn't matter how badly their day has gone, in that moment they… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Can I help you with something?" Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better… — Bob Myers Copy Share Image
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