Pleasure Quotations

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.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

It was a pleasure to work with everybody at 'American Idol' and to be able to be part of the 'Idol' family.

I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I handed him the cassette of 'Eight Arms to Hold You,' which I had just got an advance of that day. He very graciously thanked me and tucked it into his jacket pocket.

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure in paring down and paring down. But it isn't the same.

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there's more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

I still enjoy what I'm doing, which is building businesses. I don't play golf. I don't have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.

I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

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?

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.

In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

I find it an absolute pleasure to read travel guides, especially the Michelin guides, and their description of places I know I'll probably never visit. I spend a large part of my life reading descriptions of restaurants.

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

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.