To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our… — Michael Pollan 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
Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
Apart from pleasure, beauty also kindles imagination, hope and encouragement. If beauty ceased to exist, we would, in a very real sense,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As to the myth about Fat Girls and certain abilities to achieve multiple...ummm...my only comment on THAT topic, having both thin and… — Owen J McClain Copy Share Image
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be… — Sonja Lyubomirsky Copy Share Image
The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians,… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
