There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet. — Ovid Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet;… — Anthony Capella Copy Share Image
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady,… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy… — J.R. Rim Copy Share Image
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image