Pleasure Quotes · Page 67

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

— Jacob Bronowski

In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.

— Danielle Cormack

I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.

— Dawn French

In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it…

— Greta Gerwig

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

— George Benson

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

— Bernard Bolzano

I'm not kidding - once you discover the pleasure of giving, how gratifying and satisfying it is, it becomes addictive.

— Haim Saban

“Being mine means I'll make sure you know what pleasure feels like not just in your body, but in your heart and…

— Joey W. Hill

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is…

— Theodor Adorno

A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning…

— Sigmund Freud

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy…

— Antony Hewish

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of…

— Ludwig von Mises

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're…

— Ayn Rand

Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job -…

— Bryan Adams

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer…

— Petrarch

I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I…

— Lorin Stein

Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's…

— Italo Calvino

My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing…

— Nathan Fillion

Ordinarily, even when people become religious, they go on thinking in terms of having - possessing heaven or possessing the pleasures of…

— Rajneesh

I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well…

— Martin Van Buren

Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an…

— Honore de Balzac

One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and…

— Laura Mulvey

If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

— Horace

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food…

— Wendell Berry

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

— Robert Burns

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

— Virginia Woolf

“The guilty pleasure defense. In my view if it’s guilty, it ain’t pleasure.”

— Jessica Zafra

Gratification comes from contributing what you want to contribute without looking to see what others contribute or not.

— Terry Mark

Theres a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the…

— 50 Shdes Of Grey

“When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

— Ben Jonson

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

— John Milton

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

— David Lynch

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

— Donald Trump

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

— Hilaire Belloc

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

— Friedrich Nietzsche