There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Working on 'Malibu Country' with Reba McEntire is truly a gift. She is one of the nicest people that I have ever had a the pleasure to be around. She is so professional and always on time and has it together. It really is a joy to be around her.
I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more.
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music.
My taste changes radically all the time, and I listen to whatever feels good. Another thing is that I'm in the studio so much of the time, and I listen to so much loud, aggressive music for work, that for pleasure, I'll listen to something else.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
You watch these reality shows and say, 'Oh, I would do that, except for eating all the gross stuff.' These reality shows are like everyone's little guilty pleasure. To have an opportunity to be on one, why not? Anybody who says, 'No, I don't want to be on one' is kind of lying in the back of their heads.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
