There is no pleasure that I haven't actually made myself sick on. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only… — Hayley Westenra Copy Share Image
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure of working for 'The Late Show' with O'Brien when I was an NBC page at 30 Rockefeller Center,… — Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Copy Share Image
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths… — Roberto Bolano 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
A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The work, the work, the work. This is what the business is all about. This is the fun, the glory, the pleasure.… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“I am an Angel of the Light. You should not be touching my sweet, innocent flesh this way. I am a Vessel… — Bella Swann Copy Share Image
Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply,… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
“In the world of animals, pain serves an equivocal role. Parental nips and swipes are common tools in upbringing. And socially, pain… — Geoff Mains Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using… — Michael Langford Copy Share Image
Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
If it's a trip for pleasure, I always go with a comfortable outfit. — Julian Edelman Copy Share Image
When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
