It was crazy: marriage. You gave your whole life, your whole happiness, over to one other human being, even the best of… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
Curiosity is only in vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens… — Dwayne Hickman Copy Share Image
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog. He has… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self… And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable… — John Green Copy Share Image
It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society,… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the… — Toni Blake Copy Share Image
Listening to the people, being a minister that goes to the cities, to the squares, to the stations, to the hospitals, for… — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality,… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about… — Valentino Garavani Copy Share Image
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as… — Natalie MacLean Copy Share Image
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image