After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right,… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In our hedonistic age, the Slow movement has a marketing ace up its sleeve: it peddles pleasure. The central tenet of the… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three!… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each… — Sting Copy Share Image
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't play any role; I just play golf. I love the competition. For me, the pleasure begins on Thursday morning when… — Laura Davies Copy Share Image
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
In everyage and country, the wiser, or at least the stronger, ofthetwosexes, hasusurped thepowers ofthe state, and confined the other to the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad.… — Carlo Petrini Copy Share Image
...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy,… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
“Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
