#pleas

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. ↗

— Quintilian

#desire #excite #forbidden #lawful #loved

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one. ↗

— Mick Ralphs

#basement #become #did #flat #happened

When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.' ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#almost #already #auditions #go #got

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#employed #every #labor #mental #pleasure

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. ↗

— David Rittenhouse

#beauty #bigness #considerable #contrived #fitter

Talent is being able to please people. ↗

— Marty Robbins

#being #people #please #talent

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. ↗

— Jane Rule

#commitments #content #daily #day #harmonious

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#just #more #pleasurable #pleasure #pleasures

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. ↗

— James Naismith

#basketball #derive #goals #i #i am

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one. ↗

— John Norman

#cruel #easy #girl #gorean #her