Pleasure Quotes

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

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.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

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.

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

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!