Quotes About Pleasure

The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process - the characters, the costumes - rather than worrying about the finished product.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

A good jolly is worth what you pay for it.

I know that a lot of my life is spent thinking about crisps and eating crisps and hating myself for eating crisps. It's just not worth it. Or it wouldn't be if crisps weren't so delicious.

I often buy things, feel a little guilty, but then think that it's so worth it.

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

I won't eat something which is high in calories and not particularly wonderful, because that's just not worth it, you feel guilty after.

In terms of sheer pleasure, Tom Stoppard was very big for me because he is so funny and so smart, and it felt delicious reading him.

One of the great pleasures of reading Tom Wolfe - of still reading Tom Wolfe - is the sense of awe he consistently inspires.

I happen to enjoy grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.

I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

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.

I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

I do like going to the movies, but I like eating tons of sweets and ice cream, so I can't go to the movies anymore.

Life is too short not to enjoy it.

Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.

Life is just too short to count calories forever!