Quotes about Pleasure, page 3

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about pleasure

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about pleasure

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about pleasure

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about pleasure

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Quote by James Joyce about pleasure

Anticipation is 98% of the pleasure.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about pleasure

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant about pleasure

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

Quote by Camille Paglia about pleasure

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

Quote by Brian De Palma about pleasure

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about pleasure

I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.

Quote by Christopher Parker about pleasure

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.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about pleasure

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men.

Quote by Sarah Jessica Parker about pleasure

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about pleasure

Art and poetry, philosophy and the religious life, and that other life of refined pleasure and action in the conspicuous places of the world, are each of them confined to its own circle of ideas, and those who prosecute either of them are...

Quote by Walter Pater about pleasure

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about pleasure

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about pleasure

This was the motivation behind my standing for parliament as a candidate for the Payne and Pleasure Party in the Kensington by-election in July 1998.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about pleasure

I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about pleasure

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about pleasure