Pleasure Quotes
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Everything was meant to wind people up in Make It Big. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.
George Michael
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I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.
Don Henley The Eagles
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I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.
Bernard Rudofsky
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It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.
Adolf Hitler
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Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.
Queen Christina
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There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.
Eva Green
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
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Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox.
Jean Renoir
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Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
William S. Burroughs
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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
William Cowper
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Anticipation makes pleasure more intense...
Iris Johansen
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles
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It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Abraham Lincoln
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If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling, bullying natures, it's a pleasure to let it do as it pleases. With children, this would be wicked and irresponsible, so raising children involves a lot of effort and friction. They need to be taught how to tie their shoes and multiply fractions, they need to be punished for pocketing candy in the grocery store, they need to be washed and combed and forced to clean up their rooms and say please and thank you. A cat is our relief and our reward.
Barbara Holland
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Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!
Jim Elliot
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Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
Bill Vaughan
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If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.
Oprah Winfrey
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I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.
Hayley Westenra Celtic Woman
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Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
A. S. Byatt
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Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin