Pleasure Of The Text Quotes

#1. The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas - for my body does not have the same ideas as I do.

Roland Barthes

#2. Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

E. M. Forster

#3. I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.

Shaquille O'Neal

#4. I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

Pat Mora

#5. Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. The Gold Glove surprised me a little. To tell you the truth, I didn't expect it. I feel I played at the top of my game, but I was new to the league and I didn't think that many people would vote for me.

Omar Vizquel

#7. This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it-or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if it afforded pleasure to one who read it with understanding.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. Mphhh ... What did you say Tyler?' Anna-Louise mumbles on the bed above me.
I stand up, and a tame blue bird lands on my shoulder and tries to nibble my earlobe. I gently shake Anna-Louise fully awake. 'Anna-Louise, wake-up,' I say. 'Wake up
the world is alive.

Douglas Coupland

#9. There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

David Guterson