We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I… — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. Like the idea of seeing your parents naked or having somebody go down… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Sexual pleasure is not a sin. Nor is it a sacrament. It is your right as a human being to exercise as… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk,… — James Salter Copy Share Image
If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then?… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For me, Lionel Messi is quite clearly the best player ever. It’s a pleasure to put myself against him and when I… — John Terry Copy Share Image
He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I want to mark him permanently, brand him as mine. I grab my ankles to keep from grabbing him, digging my short,… — Cynthia Sax Copy Share Image
