“If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways,… — Savannah Page Copy Share Image
I think, ultimately you know in your heart how much work you've done. You know what you're doing, if you're being honest… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I've had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it… — Alexandre Dumas fils Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live the sacred… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent… — Pete La Roca Copy Share Image
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that… — Robert South Copy Share Image
We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them… — Tom Tryon Copy Share Image
A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
In Heaven, to look into God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a… — William Lawson Copy Share Image
We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience… — Frederick Lenz 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
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It was an absolute pleasure just to be able to tell my grandkids, 'Yep. I Superman-punched Vince McMahon right in the face… — Roman Reigns Copy Share Image
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for… — Marcel Achard Copy Share Image
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes… — Andrea Camilleri Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
