Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures… — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trails its wreath; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not… — Robert South Copy Share Image
I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That curiosity… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin,… — Amanda Filipacchi Copy Share Image
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort… — James Carroll 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
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Hygge is about having less, enjoying more; the pleasure of simply being. It is generous and celebratory, a way to remember the… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain.… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“•I found pleasure in wine. I found pleasure in women. And I found pleasure in spiritual experience. Only the last one was… — Sukhraj S. Dhillon Copy Share Image
Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
