I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
She put out her hand and touched his forearm, as she would have touched some piece of porcelain or sculpture, just for… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to… — Anonymous 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
Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder. — Hans Ree Copy Share Image
If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions,… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us,… — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
Every kind of work can be a pleasure. Even simple household tasks can be an opportunity to exercise and expand our caring,… — Tarthang Tulku 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 tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it. — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
