Pleasure Quotes

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
William Bligh

Beginning, Taking, Understood

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

Mind, Naturally, Easily

The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
Jason Alexander

Work, Greatest, Job

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

Work, Movies, Almost

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.
Shonda Rhimes

Saying, Guilty, Show

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.
Stewart O'Nan

Different, Sure, Since

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?
Gunther Schuller

Life, Work, Hate

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.
Heather Donahue

Sad, Mean, Others

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.
Kelly Slater

Life, Hell, Heaven

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at this beautiful Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.
Robert Crippen

Time, Beautiful, Real

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
James Nasmyth

Father, Children, Give

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.
Yanni

Night, Everybody, Total

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
William Styron

Pain, Feeling, Writing

These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?
Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Mean, Fat, Meet

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
Leslie Jamison

Privilege, Cliche, Subjects

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
Chauncey Wright

Nature, Why, Put

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
William Trevor

Pain, Far, Goes

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.
Linda Lavin

Great, Forget, Before

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
Katherine Boo

Work, Pretty, Guilty

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
Laura Riding

Poetry, Mind, End

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child

Yourself, Battle, Find

I like to stay hydrated with water throughout the day and snack on apples, but my guilty pleasure would definitely be a caramel macchiato from Starbucks!
Janel Parrish

Guilty, Water, Stay

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
Carl Clinton Van Doren

Nothing, Down, Two

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

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Gary L. Francione

Eat, Wear, Defense

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.
Vince Neil

Life, Love, Religion

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

Giving, Joy, Indeed

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.
Donald Kagan

History, Experience, Human

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
Robinson Jeffers

Lead, Market, Carrot

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Mary Richards

Love, Work, Play

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