The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you… — Homer Copy Share Image
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the… — Laraine Day Copy Share Image
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
“Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Love… we think about it,sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worrying about it.. When we don't have it, we search… — Hemant Vaswani Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true;… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that… — Derek Tangye Copy Share Image
I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them… — Charles de Saint-Evremond Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things:… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration.… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all… — Ruth Carter Stapleton Copy Share Image
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
Precision is, after all, not only a form of responsibility and a kind of pleasure, but an instrument of compassion. To be… — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre Copy Share Image
The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It's such a pleasure hosting 'Indie Hain Hum' season 2. My love for Indie artists and music has grown and shown me… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the… — Mat Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Every touch was a command, as if I’d been placed on this earth to pleasure him. Judging from the way my body… — Sarina Bowen Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The simple rule to abide by and become excellent is that “Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
