Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.Vincent Van Gogh
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson -
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 -
The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
Washed Out -
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
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Vernon Lee -
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
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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 -
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 love watching Crufts on the television, especially the agility tests; I find them very impressive.
Victoria Pendleton -
Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.
Bellamy Young
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
Marge Piercy -
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
Edmund Landau -
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell -
I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.
Michael Fassbender -
For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.
Vincent Van Gogh