Pleasure Quotes

• Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Writing
  • Secret
  • Commitment

• Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Art
  • Escape
  • Reverence

• Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Enjoy
  • Tears
  • Natural

• The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Air
  • Missing
  • Arms

• The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Forget

• Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • President
  • Pleasure
  • White House

• As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

  

  Erin McKeown
  • Pleasure
  • Findings
  • Despite

• I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.

  

  Willie Morris
  • People
  • Moments
  • Memories

• It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Pleasure
  • Expansion
  • Exhilarating

• No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Earth
  • Pleasure
  • Bound

• Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.

  

  Gerald Asher
  • Pleasure
  • Wine
  • Response

• If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Wish
  • Eye
  • Possibility

• I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Silence
  • Guilty
  • Meditation

• The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Pleasure
  • Labor
  • Producing

• Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Men
  • Pain
  • Praying

• I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.

  

  Erro
  • Different
  • Style
  • Artist

• We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Dies

• God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • God
  • Pain
  • Making

• ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Remembrance

• It's easier to use somebody if you can think of them as mute and dumb and made for your pleasure.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Think
  • Made
  • Use

• [Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Seven

• The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

  

  Deborah Solomon
  • Pleasure
  • Imagining
  • Acknowledging

• God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

  

  Eric Liddell
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Run

• For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

  

  Katrina Onstad
  • Writing
  • Relationship
  • Professionalized

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