Pleasure Quotes

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've embodied the characters and brought them to life.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.

High heels are pleasure with pain.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.