The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Dont play with another man's treasure cause you might lose your pleasure. Thats the measure one would take in defending his treasure. — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For me it's a pleasure to be trained by Zidane. I am just very thankful for all he has been asking me… — Casemiro Copy Share Image
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
To go about your work with pleasure, to greet others with a word of encouragement, to be happy in the present and… — Edwin Osgood Grover Copy Share Image
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
The ultimate source of energy, the sun is ready to set. The leaves of the blooming lotus flower in the pond are… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction. I… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
It always gives you pleasure when you score runs in Test cricket. — Bhuvneshwar Kumar Copy Share Image
“It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
