Quotes About Pleasure

Here for business or pleasure, Mr. Wheeler? Redemption, Shane says.

This is fun, Matty, isn't it? Cocktail hour is intoxicating. It is. I made a little joke there. - Celeste.

I want to have sex. To be more accurate, I want to get fucked until I can't see straight.

There's no death wish. Ironically, it's the opposite. We're after an enhanced sense of life. We trip over death, but don't take it. The process, the ritual of this, is all for the thrill and the power from the pleasure that seeps into every part of you during dying and surfacing. The intoxication is nearly impossible to fight.

I happen to have a certain fondness for existing--soda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all the things you would miss: Cartoons, music, movies, video games, music, art, fingernail growth, sex...well, perhaps not sex, depending on how weird your mortician is.

There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise eluded her.

The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

I don't always want a big meal after work - just some crisps and wine!

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling

Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.

When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.