I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.
I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.
People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.
Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere - much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
I will say one thing: Mick Mars is one of the greatest songwriters I've ever met in my life and had the pleasure to work with.
I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time I walk out my door into the perfect weather.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
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.
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
