In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out… — Olivia Hussey Copy Share Image
For me, my guilty pleasure is that if I don't want to do anything one day, I won't. I'll just sit around,… — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone… — David Platt Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm happy to entertain kids you know. It's my biggest pleasure to like see a twelve year old picking up a book… — Marko Djurdjevic Copy Share Image
I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I treat myself to a manicure/pedicure every week. I get my hair fixed every week. I don't think that's a guilty pleasure,… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Chocolate is like my best friend and the most intense pleasure at the same time, perhaps not the most intense, but the… — Chloe Doutre-Roussel Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm just another Opry entertainer. I'm not the start of the Opry, and I'm not the ending. I'm not the Alpha, and… — Roy Acuff Copy Share Image
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation… — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as… — William Law Copy Share Image
The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
