#plea

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forbear #pain #pleasure #who #would

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#hope #human #human mind #mind #natural

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#dark #dark place #done #easy #environment

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#does #easily #emotion #give #great

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#children #pains #pleasures #wrinkles

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ↗

— James Joyce

#cannot #irresponsibility #part #pleasure #recognize

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#different #direction #experience #felt #history

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance. ↗

— Karen Kain

#bring #dance #explore #far #feel

If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #ever #facts #get #guessing

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#century #decades #odd #pleasant #something