Pleasure Quotes
Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
I enjoyed playing around with Paulie in the Rocky films, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.
We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race
I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.
Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.
The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.
I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.
Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.
You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.
Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.
There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.