I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text. — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people… — William Deresiewicz Copy Share Image
The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them. — Dorie Greenspan Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the… — Daniel Meyer Copy Share Image
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
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Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health. — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
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I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure… — Richard Mille Copy Share Image
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I play for the audience's pleasure. What I expect from them is not important; it's what they expect from me. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever… — Edith Durham Copy Share Image
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
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I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
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The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or… — David Deida Copy Share Image
I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“A woman isn't a whore for wanting pleasure. If it were unnatural, we would not be born with such drives.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
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