Pleasure Quotes

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

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.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

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.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks for films like 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle' where I have the pleasure of playing the ugliest man in the world.

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.