... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...
Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.
No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.
Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.
If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we`ve lost a lot.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
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.
I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
