Quotes About Pleasure

Toma de la vida todo lo que te dé, sea lo que sea, siempre que te interese y te pueda dar cierto placer.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

Oh, comfortable cocoa!

then we danced the tune through again, without saying one word - indeed, we never spoke all the time we were dancing. I can't remember that I even thought. I seemed to move with a pleasure that was mindless.

And though I cannot honestly say I would ever turn my back on any luxury that I could come by, I do feel there is something a bit wrong in it. Perhaps that makes it all the more enjoyable.

What with books and chocolate, there's not much else you could have in it, is there?

Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.

Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.

It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns.

I think pleasure is in the moment more than in the thing.

To weigh three hundred pounds. What devout vulgarity. It seemed a worthwhile goal for prospective saints and flagellants. The new asceticism. All the visionary possibilities of the fast. To feed on the plants and animals of earth. To expand and wallow. I cherished his size, the formlessness of it, the sheer vulgar pleasure, his sense of being overwritten prose. Somehow it was the opposite of death.

The world was a series of fleeting gratifications.

The painted aircraft took on sunlight and pulse. Sweeps of color, bands and spatters, airy washes, the force of saturated light—the whole thing oddly personal, a sense of one painter's hand moved by impulse and afterthought as much as by epic design. I hadn't expected to register such pleasure and sensation. The air was color-scrubbed, coppers and ochers burning off the metal skin of the aircraft to exchange with the framing desert.

Transient pleasures, drastic measures.

I want to do whatever's best for you." "But you please me by letting me please you," she said. "As the male partner I think it's my responsibility to please." "I'm not sure whether that's a sensitive caring statement or a sexist remark." "Is it wrong for the man to be considerate toward his partner?

I liked being with Wilder. The world was a series of fleeting gratifications. He took what he could, then immediately forgot it in the rush of a subsequent pleasure. It was this forgetfulness I envied and admired.

How much pleasure did you take as a kid," Lasher said, "in imagining yourself dead?

Quando tutto è nuovo, il piacere è tutto in superficie.

Sex is what you can get. For some people, for most people it's the most important thing they can get without being born rich or famous or stealing.

What well being in a barefoot piss after a strenuous and proper screw.

Beauty comes from conscious reflection and experience. It is influenced by knowledge, learning, and culture. Objects that are unattractive on the surface can give pleasure. Discordant music, for example, can be beautiful. Ugly art can be beautiful.

Usable designs are not necessarily enjoyable to use.

Effective design needs to satisfy a large number of constraints and concerns, including shape and form, cost and efficiency, reliability and effectiveness, understandability and usability, the pleasure of the appearance, the pride of ownership, and the joy of actual use. HCD is a procedure for addressing these requirements, but with an emphasis on two things: solving the right problem, and doing so in a way that meets human needs and capabilities.

Great designers produce pleasurable experiences.