Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the… — Toni Blake Copy Share Image
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious. — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
“The stranger was still smiling. He transformed himself into a rose bush and entwined me. My Christian education meant that ever since… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even… — Mathew Baynton Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Thus Epicurus also, when he designs to destroy the natural fellowship of mankind, at the same time makes use of that which… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When deeply religious subjects view sacred iconography or reflect on their notion of God, brain scans reveal hyperactivity in the caudate nucleus,… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
I abstain from any kind of release for six weeks before a fight, no self-pleasure, nothing. Even in my dreams, I'll be… — David Haye Copy Share Image
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting… — Michael Broadbent Copy Share Image
As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following… — Jean-Claude Ellena Copy Share Image
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image