Earth Quote by Ivan Turgenev

“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”

— Marcel Proust

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

— Jan Neruda

An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea…

— Pauline Kael

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

— David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

— David Hume

If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to…

— Arthur Miller

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart…

— Khalil Gibran

'Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy.

— Laurieann Gibson

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

— Simone Weil

“Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages.”

— Florence Williams

“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth." [From: 19 Lessons On Tea]”

— Alexander Pushkin