“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In… — Ivana Trump Copy Share Image
Meadowlark Lemon's book Trust Your Next Shot is written by a remarkable person. I have had the pleasure of knowing Meadowlark for… — Lenny Wilkens Copy Share Image
“Love is a form of pleasure. Pleasure is caused by the release of endorphins. The things we believe make a person attractive… — Shana Norris Copy Share Image
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than… — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
“I’m sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But i understand your feeling. I… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment,… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He glanced at her, his hair wild and his eyes red. 'May I give ye pleasure?' Still a gentleman. Emma smiled. But… — Kerrelyn Sparks Copy Share Image
“living only for the moment, savouring the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms, and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking wine, and… — Asai Ryoi Copy Share Image
Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes… — Plato Copy Share Image
Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trails its wreath; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
