Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure.

I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

I do my job. I love my job. It's the best job I ever had. And it's probably the best job I will ever have. And I serve at the pleasure of the president. That's true of President Obama. That will be true of President Trump. And if and when a president decides that they want to replace me, I'll ride off into the sunset.

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

If I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, a pretty lady, I'll yell, 'Homo!' She can't get pissed, and I still get the pleasure of yelling at her.

If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven't found that right girl yet.

If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever used photography for my own pleasure - even if I then bewailed the vanished pleasure which my pictures brought back to me.

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.