Pleasure Quotes

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

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

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.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

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

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.

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.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.