Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“Oh yes," said Jana. "You want the birdbath." She let him down onto the rim of the birdbath, then watched as he… — Betsy Woodman Copy Share Image
So I don't think being an artist you can ever satisfy - the moment you do get satisfied is the moment you're… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. but to move an audience in such a… — Alicia Markova Copy Share Image
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No… — C. S. Lewis 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
“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it… — Christopher Janaway Copy Share Image
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at… — Laura McPhee Copy Share Image
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine,… — Arne Garborg Copy Share Image
You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Because we haven’t been taught to appreciate and love ourselves in this way, we don’t feel like we deserve self-care and pleasure.… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
My favorite - my very favorite movie, which I suppose is a bit of a guilty pleasure in that it's like, you… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure… — George Arnold Copy Share Image
I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
