Pleasure Quotes
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There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
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I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
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So pleasure was this: breaking, mixing, no longer knowing what was mine and what was his.
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I’ve had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.
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I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
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People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.
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It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.
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In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.
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Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
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A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
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..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
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I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.
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Had it really been so wonderful? I knew very well that at that time, too, there had been shame. And uneasiness, and humiliation, and disgust: accept, submit, force yourself. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
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Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.
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This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.
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She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation...
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I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.
