Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal… — Christopher John Farley Copy Share Image
To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only… — Hayley Westenra Copy Share Image
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Céline Labaune has the knowledge, passion and dedication to finding us only the best truffles from the most reliable source of truffle… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot,… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“...to hold twilight or watch it darken, describes the pleasure we take in pausing to observe as day slips into night. To… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It used to be said, not so long ago, that every suicide gave Satan special pleasure. I don't think that's true-unless it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Fear and anxiety and sadness are not necessarily always undesirable or unhelpful states of mind; rather, they are often representatives of the… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us… — Athenagoras of Athens Copy Share Image
There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up,… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for?-They must be… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Turn wishful thinking into positive action. Those who take a proactive stance in their lives tend to have an ample supply of… — Cheryl Saban Copy Share Image
Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image