It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
I love going to the movies and getting Raisinets, a big tub of popcorn and a Coke. That's definitely a guilty pleasure because I can't be doing that all the time.
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
I maybe such a pain in the ass, But in a good way. I give you pleasure at the same time!
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.
It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.
To be a great business person, you must be a great observer.
