Quotes About Pleasure

I love stone crabs. And I love popcorn.

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

St. Lucia represents, for me, where I found myself musically once I stopped trying to be cool, in some way, and stopped stopping these guilty pleasure influences I had from coming through.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

As soon as it stops being fun, then I'll stop acting.

When it stops being fun, that's when I'll stop playing.

Being in meetings - that feels like work. But finding candy, being in the store - that's fun, and it drives me.

I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought them. At 40, I sometimes go simply for the pleasure, of seeing what is new, of learning what counts as beautiful now.

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

First and foremost I am a chef, whether behind the stove at one of my Northern California restaurants or for the past 15 years in front of the camera on my Food Network cooking shows. Creating new dishes and flavor combinations that bring cooks and our restaurant guests pleasure is my job and I love it.

Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

Hark ye of little pleasure! See your way clearly as your destiny reveals its truth! Seek not completion lest your touch be forever dismissed!

Because after the finish all the suffering turns to memories of pleasure, and the greater the suffering, the greater the pleasure.

Demon's Roost is a paean to pleasure, a twenty-four-hour-a-day bacchanalia that makes Las Vegas look like a kindergarten playground. It's an adults-only amusement park which contains such a dazzling scope and variety of decadence and perversity that it might give Caligula himself pause.

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times. No news websites whatsoever (cnn.com, drudgereport.com, msn.com,10 etc.). No television at all, except for one hour of pleasure viewing each evening. No reading books, except for this book and one hour of fiction11 pleasure reading prior to bed. No web surfing at the desk unless it is necessary to complete a work task for that day. Necessary means necessary, not nice to have.

Those moments show me that this whole thing is bigger than me. It's the realization that there is a "will to pleasure," a "will to power" and, in the words of Viktor Frankl, a "will to meaning." You won't take a bullet for pleasure or power, but you will for meaning.

In any field, there's usually some kind of mythological reward you're supposed to receive if everybody considers you a success. But in my experience, there's a lot more honest joy to be had from taking pleasure in the work itself.