Pleasure Quotes

I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line.
Karen Russell

Writing, Friends, Line

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
Isabelle Huppert

Time, Hope, Evening

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.
John Hume

Age, Time, History

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

Family, Friends, Act

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
John Rawls

Life, Great, Pain

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
John Selden

Pain, Nothing, Else

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.
Eric Ripert

Enjoy, Problem, Start

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

Life, Real, Enjoy

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music, Act, Miss

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.
Hugo Weaving

Work, Real, Working

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
Lance Loud

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Jim Bishop

Mother, Father, Him

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
Marilyn Hacker

Writing, Else, Between

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
Willie Mays

Money, Sports, Game

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.
Alastair Campbell

Work, Fight, Made

I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.
Lydia Lunch

Needs, Achieve, Total

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
Debra Messing

Son, Guilty, While

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
Barbara Kruger

Different, Criticism, Ways

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.
Robert Trout

Best, Society, Pain

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
Norman Spinrad

History, Science, Child

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
William Ames

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Francis Picabia

Pain, Reasons, Totally

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.
Nicolas Malebranche

Love, Good, Happy

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

Life, Business, Rule

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
Shane MacGowan

Someone, Writing, Else

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
George P. Baker

Through, Find, Action

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

Whatever, Action, Interest

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Hilaire Belloc

Book, Child, Pictures

Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc

Time, Money, Gives

I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
Barry Sanders

Experience, Made, Wonderful

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