Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
A thousand lies have made me colder and I don't think I can look at this the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument. — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold… — Emily Rodda Copy Share Image
It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned when they… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men.… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
What a pleasure it is to be in business with BASE. I'm impressed with the honesty, integrity and efficiency with which they… — Bernie Brillstein Copy Share Image
Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image