Best 1753 quotes in «pleasure quotes» category

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

When I see a news story on a site, about a movie that I'm interested in, it's like the mouse going for the pleasure button and I click it. But then, when I see the movie, it's like, "Oh, I would have enjoyed the movie that much more, if I hadn't known that.

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.

Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Writing grew out of the pleasure of escape. My novels are very much outside of my personal experience. That is why I love writing fiction. It allows me to leave my existence and inhabit other lives.

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Young people need pleasure as truly as they need food and air.

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.