Zitat des Tages über Größtes Vergnügen / Greatest Pleasure:
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
My greatest pleasure is going out on a horrible, cold, wet January morning to pick the vegetables for our Sunday lunch, putting them in a muddy pile on the table, and then spending 45 minutes washing and preparing them. I like doing it because it's so different to what I do in the week. The same holds for cleaning the car or shining my shoes.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.