Quotes of: Pleasures Keyword

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

The Pleasures of Life

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

The Pleasures of Life

Colin: "1 dinna understand why we canna just go to bed and have sex." He looked truly puzzled.

The Pleasure Master

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

Men need to realize that women take longer to get aroused and satisfied - sometimes 6 -8 times longer. Make the journey pleasurable.

A Woman's Pleasure

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.

Reclaiming Epicurus

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Stephen Greenblatt

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

Saul Perlmutter

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

Salman Rushdie

You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my biggest pleasure of all is exercise. I really get off on exercise.

Brian Wilson

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

Crescent Dragonwagon

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Gunther Schuller

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature...

George Pierce Baker

The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.

Isra

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Mortimer Adler

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Amos Oz

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

[last lines] Gareth Mallory: So, 007... Lot's to be done. Are you ready to get back to work? James Bond: With pleasure, M. With pleasure.

Skyfall

2nd Interviewer: Mr. Murphy, what attracts you to the leisure industry? Spud: In a word: pleasure. It's like, my pleasure in other people's leisure.

Trainspotting

We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact. This feeling is EVIL. Learn to see it in yourself, and th...

Robin Hanson