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.
I want to have five or six wives, and a few dozen sheep, all for my pleasure. I should be a politician.
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of depriving you of their taste.
Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?
I smile at you, hinting at the pleasures ahead, and silently point to the zip at the back of my dress…
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?
He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.
No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.
