“I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices . . . The point is not to be debilitated by your pleasures. Maybe I have lucky genes or something but I've never been truly addicted to anything, except pleasure in general.” PleasureLuckyVicesFortunateGenesMileage Author:Jay McInerney
“The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.” PeopleDoeHandsReadingPleasureClearTroubleReaderLuckyAssumingAttributesSuperficialPreciseZealUnluckyUnclear Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.” IfsWorldLooksHas BeensEnoughHomeJoyFatherPleasureInspiringSadnessTomorrowLuckyLeavingExcitementCavesCarriagesMiscarriageLeaving HomeFather Leaving Author:Audrey Hepburn
“The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'” IfsTwoStatesProblemMightNationsChancePleasureUnitedLeaderBreakUnited StatesRevolutionLuckyFilledMarineTreatiesTwo DaysBreak OutColombiaCanalsPanamaLucky Breaks Book:Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
“For me, Scholesy's the best footballer England has produced in my time. The way he controlled games, passed the ball, saw things that other players didn't see; it was a pleasure to play with him and United were lucky to have him for so long.” WayLongPlayGamesPleasureUnitedSawsPlayerLuckyBallsEnglandMy TimeControlledFootballer Author:Wayne Rooney
“When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I wound up with several book review columns, which meant that I had to read huge amounts of stuff that was outside my experience and outside my comfort zone. I think every young writer should be forced to read the kind of stuff they would not normally read for pleasure.” ThinkingMenShouldKindBookKidsYoungStuffPleasureHugeAmountComfortLuckyWoundsYoung ManZoneReviewsComfort ZoneColumnsYoung WritersBook Review Author:Neil Gaiman