John Milton Quotes
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman -
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark -
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon -
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin -
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark -
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie -
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
G. Willow Wilson -
My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Rachel Bilson -
I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
Taylor Kinney -
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
R. C. Sproul -
Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
Yehuda Amichai -
I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.
John Travolta
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I don't find myself sexy.
Janet Jackson -
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
Oscar Wilde -
Of all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
John Milton