Pleasure Quotes
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.
It has been said that the only reason for leaving England is to give yourself the pleasure of coming back to it.
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.
The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.
Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.