A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view. — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with. — John Green Copy Share Image
The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another. — Richard Layard, Baron Layard Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain.… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
“•I found pleasure in wine. I found pleasure in women. And I found pleasure in spiritual experience. Only the last one was… — Sukhraj S. Dhillon Copy Share Image
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Beautiful Hannah. If you were mine, I'd lay you on silk sheets and wrap you up in ropes of pearls, and feed… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“I shall consider this time alone with you a pleasure, Miss Elizabeth.” — P.O. Dixon Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
