The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You're rather good at this, aren't you?" And she didn't just mean his reading of Gerrard. Vane's grin converted to a rakish… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also… — Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Since Reagan, it's almost impossible to get funding for research on sexual pleasure. You can find sexual behavior research, but not sexual… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lovely thing is that now being offered things is just a blast. In the beginning, I'd be offered something and be… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only… — Alan King Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
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