Quotes of: Pleasurable Keyword

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

Marcel Achard

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

Laura Riding

If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.

David Belle

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

Stephen Greenblatt

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.

Indian

The chief means of liberating women is replacing of compulsiveness and compulsion by the pleasure principle. Cooking, clothes, beauty, and housekeeping are all compulsive activities in which the anxiety quotient has long since replaced the pleasure o...

The Female Eunuch

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.

Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith

Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.

Made from Scratch: Reclaiming the Pleasures of the American Hearth

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin.

Nana

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

Les caractères

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

Love and Responsibility

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

Swann's Way

It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.

Swann's Way

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote: Conversations

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.

Out of the Silent Planet

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction