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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
I love the show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia;' that's probably a guilty pleasure! I laugh so hard.
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.
I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.
The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.
I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.
Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.
I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.
There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!
He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.
In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.
All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.
You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style
I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.