In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised… He saw them toiling, saw them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I like being able to bounce between writing movies for people like Kevin Sorbo to making very personal films like orange county… — Evan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
You can never get to a person's mind. You cannot know the different deeds and missions of happiness; you can't tell a… — Ibi Kaslik Copy Share Image
One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
“Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles Copy Share Image
To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities-… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
“Gasping desperately, she clenched her hands on his shoulders, fingers sinking deep. His lips firmed, he suckled gently- Patience felt the earth… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy.… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“In the act of writing he experiences, today, an exceptional sensual pleasure -- in the feel of the pen, snug in the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name… You… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it.… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I like to shoot beautiful things. My two previous movies were one in the '60s, the other one in the '50s, and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time?… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This means that shame monitors excitement and pleasure. Nature has made the sexual experience the most exciting and pleasurable of all our… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image