The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty… — Pope Leo XII Copy Share Image
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
When you're seeking after bodily pleasure of food and drink for example, this is going to prevent you from doing what you… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Gloria, Gloria! they cry, for their song embraces all that the Lord has begun this day: Glory to God in the highest… — Walter Wangerin Copy Share Image
When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you… — Janet Horne Copy Share Image
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It hard to determine if it is really worth hurting someones feeling just to pleasure yourself for a few minutes, or is… — Kneisha Copy Share Image
Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much… — Thomas Langmann Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of… — Lord Buckley Copy Share Image
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
