#plea

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. ↗

— Alvin Ailey

#dancers #draining #getting #into #mentally

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time. ↗

— Harold Norse

#joy #life #love #passion #pleasure

There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain. ↗

— Lord Amherst

#easy #farming #losing #money #most

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#beautiful things #being #criticizing #feel #moved

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#cause #contributor #editor #financial #independent

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends. ↗

— James Arness

#became #before #being #california #friends

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#death #peaceful #pleasant #transition #troublesome

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. ↗

— Mary Astell

#being #beloved #best #cannot #certainly

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. ↗

— Mary Astell

#defend #generous #honourable #may #me

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#fragmented #get #gets #gives #hands