#plea

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #before #book #books #die

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#change #for the people #good #happen #i

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#anyone #asked #complain #easily #ever

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#down #giggle #great #here #humour

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#brings #cultivate #gain #highest #never

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#different #every #every time #get #i

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ↗

— Novalis

#enjoyment #height #learning #pleasurable

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce. ↗

— Xenophon

#least #most #pleasure #requires #sauce

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#him #his #i #just #kasdan