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
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as… — Natalie MacLean Copy Share Image
Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control! O for a vale that… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process… — Richard Willstatter Copy Share Image
Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
“There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
There are so many girls out there that I don't have to work with and who aren't married or have boyfriends. There's… — Bryan Greenberg Copy Share Image
What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without reservation;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I can drive a certain car one day with great pleasure, and the next day I'll be disappointed that the experience isn't… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
There's no bigger pleasure for a person perhaps than to enjoy his own company and its proof is that everyone loves sleeping… — Cristina Orante Copy Share Image
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who… — Alessandra Stanley Copy Share Image
I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image