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Quotes About Pleasure

The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.
~ Alan Watts
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
~ Alan Watts
Soon there would be a final morning, a final afternoon, a final sunrise. She measured her life by these thoughts and then reprimanded herself for not simply enjoying such pleasures while she still could.
~ Alastair Reynolds
You always do, Mister Ness, and it's to your credit. As are your daughters. Fine specimens, both. It's been my pleasure and my privilege to have seen them through their development." He carried on with the humming, and started digging his short, fat fingers into his pocket. "Would you like a …
~ Alastair Reynolds
A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
~ Ridley Scott
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
~ Walter Kirn
I eat everything. I still like to go to Peter Luger once in a while.
~ Jean-Georges Vongerichten
I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.
~ Juergen Teller
I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
~ Candy Crowley
If I could just get a piece of lemon, it'd be great.
~ Rip Torn
When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.
~ Shepard Fairey
I just can't live without chocolate - I have between two and six pieces every day.
~ Sonia Rykiel
I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.
~ Holly Madison
I love food. I'm a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that, but I love eating; I never stop eating.
~ Justin Lee
I sure do enjoy my ice cream. And I consider a pint a good start.
~ Joshua Malina
I care more about my pipe than about fame and honors.
~ Honoré Daumier
We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.
~ Michael K. Powell
It is a pleasure if you pull out all your clothes out of the wardrobe and manage to fit into everything easily.
~ Dimple Kapadia
25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
~ Daniel Boulud
I love to pick tomatoes at the end of the day, when they're still warm from the sun.
~ Alain Ducasse
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.
~ William Styron
I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
~ Rachael Ray
We eat raw dough. We eat raw cookie. We eat massive buttercream in cakes that are still warm. We eat salt. We have to taste things that you will not put in your mouth. But you know what? That's television. You have to do it.
~ Jacques Torres