Quotes of: Great-pleasure Keyword

But then he combs his fingers through my hair, starting at the base of my neck, and I shiver with uncontrollable, unexpected pleasure.

Primula Bond

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Pat Conroy

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

Paul Theroux

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Peter York

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Shane MacGowan

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Thomas de Quincey

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

Joseph Wambaugh

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Lucian Freud

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

Lee Radziwill

If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

Lila Acheson Wallace

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

Far more than the shield is the Pleasure I get on the field . . . the Joy of the chase is greater than the result of the race.-RVM

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I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

Mick Taylor

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

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

Dean Ornish

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

David Rittenhouse

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Martin Farquhar Tupper