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“It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?”

Ifs Giving Littles Doe Art Matter Pleasure Give Me Crafts

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.”

Giving Pain Strong Force Pleasure Give Me Coffee Warmth Waking Unusual

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.”

People Giving Pleasure Powerful Struggle Terrible Give Me Tragedy Foolish Enjoyment Capability Accused Merry Life Struggle Clamor Experiencing Something

Author:August Strindberg

“It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.”

Way Giving Writing Stories Names Pleasure Produce Give Me

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“From my table inside I watch the glamorous women outside who are lunching on Spa Cobb salads without blue cheese or dressing. The man with the bread basket wanders from table to table, lonesome as a cloud. When he comes to me his basket is full and perfectly arranged. He gives me a smile of sincere pleasure when I tell him I will take both the sourdough roll and the cheese stick.”

Men Giving Pleasure Watches Food He Man Give Me Blue Tables Cooking Sticks Clouds Bread Wander Culinary Sincere Cheese Dressings Glamorous Salad Baskets Lonesome Spas Blue Cheese

Author:Ann Patchett

“If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!”

Ifs Giving Pleasure Give Me Honour

Author:Benito Mussolini

“If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.”

Ifs Giving Reason Pleasure Give Me Expensive Worth It Orchids

Author:Lee Radziwill

“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”

Giving Heart Country Pleasure Conditions Citizens My Heart Highest Standards Give Me Crisis Fellows Bottom Citizenship Greatest Pleasures

Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

“It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.”

Giving Pleasure Prove Give Me Theorems

Author:Edmund Landau

“One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.”

People Men Giving Firsts Kind Important Book Play Shows Pleasure Produce Dad Give Me Theater My Dad Producers Solo Pioneers Shakespeare Play

Author:John Lithgow

“If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God.”

Ifs World Giving Should Stills Soul Joy Pleasure Son Amount Comfort Give Me Gods Will My Soul Cups Ease Drains Thirsty Dregs

Author:Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

“Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.”

Giving Pleasure Animal Give Me Cameras Animal Rights Animal Welfare Animal Cruelty Animal Life Animal Abuse Wildlife Animals Abused Animals

Author:James Stewart

“Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure”

Giving Pleasure Effort Intellectual Give Me Enormous

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.”

Want Giving Feels Writing Reading Pleasure Give Me Distraction Privileged Bonus

Author:Pankaj Mishra