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Quotes About Pleasure

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
~ Aristotle
I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.
~ Shane Black
I'm really pleased to form part of the Barca family.
~ Ousmane Dembele
A pleased audience member is a pleased audience member, whether they're in New York or Mumbai.
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
Some songs take months to get right, but 'Let Her Go' was so easy. I was no more pleased with it than any other song I'd written.
~ Passenger
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
~ Charlaine Harris
I have to please me, personal foremost, I have to do work that I find interesting, that pleases me, by and large.
~ Konkona Sen Sharma
Performing well's always pleasing, especially when the team gets the win and you can help contribute to it.
~ Trevor Bauer
I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
~ Julie Burchill
We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.
~ Jerry Pournelle
It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.
~ Jenna Elfman
You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable to do in bed is r-e-a-d.
~ Denis Norden
I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.
~ Cathy Marie Buchanan
Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'
~ Whit Stillman
I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'
~ Gretchen Rubin
I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.
~ David Rakoff
Joy is something you can experience even when life is not pleasurable. Even in the midst of a long run, when your legs are burning, you can still feel joy.
~ Shawn Achor
It's not that what LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean do is necessarily simple, but they are basic loops and beats and songs that are just pleasurable in a really basic way.
~ Max Joseph
My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.
~ Borns
I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.
~ Edward James Olmos
I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.
~ Morris Gleitzman
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.
~ John Mackey