Pleasure Quotes

We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Up
- Loved
- Cup
I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Dan Brown

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

Ellis Peters
- May
- Saint
- Retrospect
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

William Stafford
- World
- Alive
- Land
The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

Euripides
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

Gary Hume
- Time
- Work
- Pleasure
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Corrie Ten Boom
- May
- Wind
- Bird
The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

David Deida
- World
- Men
- Depth