Pleasure Quotes

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.

Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

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

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to do that myself, to create that other world.

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 some good singers on that show.

To what do I owe the pleasure?

In today's world, when many of yesterday's fashionable habits are today's misdemeanors, we should rejoice that a chocolate dessert can bring so much innocent pleasure.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?

For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.

It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

More is learned in pain than in pleasure.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.

I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.