For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
Buying is a profound pleasure.
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.
I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are so I can achieve satisfaction.
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of Children Award Gala, at which I have the profound pleasure of meeting the newest class of changemakers for children who are there to receive their World of Children Award.
I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
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.
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.
Running gives me a lot of pleasure. It's something I'll always do, as long as I can.
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.
Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is with Zelazny. I've read his 'Princes in Amber' books so often, I know them almost verbatim, so much so that I am now trying to forget them so I can return to them with renewed pleasure.
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.
