I’d forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else’s dream.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I’m in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
I didn’t get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn’t see the point of it all. I’m 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
One should never learn from one’s mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
I’ve had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn’t care! He knows what a politician is, and he’s a perfect embodiment of one.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
I think optimism springs from nature. I’m a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.
It’s a pleasure to play my sister because everything I’ve accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
It is one of man’s curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
Having a son is not all pleasure.
I don’t think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
My guilty pleasure is definitely candy! Skittles are my favourite.
I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in ‘Sparkle,’ but I’d like to pursue it a bit more. I sang at a friend’s 60th at Claridge’s the other month; I did ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ with the actor Hilton McRae, and ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’
My guilty pleasure is listening to Enya in the bathtub. I do bubbles. I do essential oils. Candles, if they’re around.
In France we have a saying, ‘Joie de vivre,’ which actually doesn’t exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Fashion is where I make my living. I’m not knocking it; it’s a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there’s the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.
But I don’t read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies – making them, seeing them – is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy – love, family, food, movies.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Watching ‘The Jeremy Kyle Show’ is my guilty pleasure.
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Imagination is Reality Lite – a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.
So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick – but at least I’d had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.
To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn’t properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it’s not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Cynicism is tough. A cynic’s point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I’m fairly healthy, it’s hard to stay dismal for very long.
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about, but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That’s why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it.
I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I’m performing.
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
I’ll take no charity! What I get I’ll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.
I don’t gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn’t give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
It’s such a pleasure to work in these movies, it’s almost like it’s not really happening.
My guilty pleasure is Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
I’ve learnt and I just want to be respected for what I’ve achieved on the pitch. I know I haven’t achieved much off it but I do know I’ve given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
The only guilty pleasure I have is pasta.
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
Children ran up to me shouting, ‘Columbo!’ At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
