By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen. — Roy Acuff Copy Share Image
“Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse. — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure. — Dawn French Copy Share Image
Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In… — Ivana Trump Copy Share Image
I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt for a common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure… — Donna Air Copy Share Image
Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You can never get to a person's mind. You cannot know the different deeds and missions of happiness; you can't tell a… — Ibi Kaslik Copy Share Image
I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with… — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One of the things I miss most about the U.K. is political TV, and I have one of those little gadgets, which… — Raza Jaffrey Copy Share Image
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
