"To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for."

-- Wendell Berry

#Beautiful Quotes #Affection Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty .... Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.”
“Itâ€™s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is Godâ€™s will. Itâ€™s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when youâ€™re not supposed to have emptiness.”
“I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.”
“I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.”
“So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.”

Source : "Dennis Bergkamp" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.
“... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".”
“Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.”
“I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.”

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