#enjoyment

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#enjoyment #like #looks #smile #sneer

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#life #life

The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters; experiencing every detail of their story as it unfolds gradually and personally within my own creative psyche.  I'm like a cat with untold lives, because each new book is my rebirth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#enjoyment #novelist #pleasure #richelle #richelle-goodrich

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. ↗

— Jane Austen

#behavior #employment #enjoyment #manners #propriety

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#average #average person #crowd #enjoyment #entertainment

The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#deep #enjoyment #entertainment #find #going

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#certainly #children #comparison #enjoyment #forms

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. ↗

— Robert Smith

#business #enjoyment #horrible #i #idea

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#arts-and-humanities #culture #dance #dancing #enjoy-life

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. ↗

— William Law

#alone #christianity #conforming #devotion #enjoyments