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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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
Charles Baudelaire
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
Oscar Wilde
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I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.
Ethan Hawke
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Anita Loos
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After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
Bill Vaughan
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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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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
Virginia Woolf
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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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Anticipation makes pleasure more intense...
Iris Johansen
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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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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
William Cowper
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
William Cowper
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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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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
William Ames
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Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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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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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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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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Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Muhammad Ali
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Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.
Queen Christina
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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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Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox.
Jean Renoir