Pleasurable Quotes

142 quotes by 131 authors

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it… — Ian MacKaye
It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back. — Jenna Elfman
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane. — Justin Halpern
I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had… — Eric Burdon
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct… — Greil Marcus
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's… — M. Ward
It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like… — Neil Jordan
The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable… — Eckhart Tolle
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable. — Rudolf Arnheim
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and… — Alain de Botton
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far… — Morris Graves
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand,… — Eduard Hanslick
The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. — Erasmus Darwin
Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back… — Joe Bradley
The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange. — Oliver Jeffers
A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library windowâ€¦ I was… — Garry Disher
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a… — Neil Gaiman
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive… — Keith Henson
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be… — Fran Lebowitz

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