If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc.,… — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“Fill each day with life and heart. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it -… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the… — Richard Trevithick Copy Share Image
Consider a cow. A cow doesn't have the problem-solving skill of a chimpanzee, which has discovered how to get termites out of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Lord, I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You will. Let… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Frankly speaking, the pleasure and satisfaction you get after performing against India you don't get against any team, and if you ask… — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“A man's greatest pleasure is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them that which they possessed,… — Ghengis Khan Copy Share Image
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen… It's the secret of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us… — Ted Sizer Copy Share Image
“When the mind experiences something pleasant, it craves that the pleasure will remain and will intensify. Therefore, the mind is always dissatisfied… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with… — Leonore Fleischer Copy Share Image
For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like how do… — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases;… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them!… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I… — John Currin Copy Share Image
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
