We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double -… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure. — Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne Copy Share Image
I want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine. — Marcel Boulestin Copy Share Image
If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Our sexuality is affected by our fantasies. Some of these fantasies have their roots in our childhood. We have the power to… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries,… — Patience Gray Copy Share Image
Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one… — Alexander Smith 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
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about… — Valentino Garavani Copy Share Image
The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
George Jones has been a major part of my personal and professional life for a long time. I have been inspired by… — Sammy Kershaw Copy Share Image
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image