Luxuriate Quotes

#1. We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Henry Miller

#2. College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.

Frank Bruni

#3. Ruthan Gudd drew off his gambeson and paused to luxuriate in the sudden escape from unbearable heat as his sweat-slicked skin cooled.
'Well,' said Skanarow from her cot, 'that woke me up.'
'My godlike physique?'
'The smell, Ruthan.

Steven Erikson

#4. let myself luxuriate in the decadence of being with Jamison.

Olivia Chase

#5. I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.

Henry Louis Gates

#6. Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.

Frank McCourt

#7. In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.

John Fusco

#8. There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always consuming, creating, building. There's something inside of us that wants desperately to stop and experience and just be
not just always do.

Elizabeth Lesser

#9. I luxuriate more in a whole day alone; a day of easy natural poses; slipping tranquilly off into the deep water of my own thoughts, navigating the underworld.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Luxuriate in a constant flow of information, picking out whatever I wanted to know.

Garth Nix

#12. I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.

Haruki Murakami

#13. There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

John Quincy Adams

#14. Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.

Edward John Trelawny

#15. Rejoice in every aspect of life - big or small. Let nothing pass you by. Appreciate everything - whether it is perceived as good or bad. You have the power to turn any experience into a pleasurable one. Challenge your preconceptions and luxuriate in the simple things of life.

Jennifer L. Scott

#16. She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#17. Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#18. A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. outside the city. Fortunately for them,

Julien Ayotte

#20. We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#21. I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. I do not know.
[summarising his life's work]

Joseph-Louis Lagrange