Quotes About Pleasure

I read in the 'Daily Mail' that I'm one of these 'foul-mouthed comedians.' But I'm much cleaner than the people they like. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to think that a 70-year-old - particularly someone like Alan Bennett - would like it, because they've seen a lot of stuff.

It's great to come home always... coming home to good south Indian meals or Andhra food is always a pleasure.

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten so that it doesn't seem as though I've read a book unless I've written about it. It really seems the completion of the reading process.

Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.

It's always a pleasure to have a manager give you compliments.

I like the extras in life. Concentrating on serious things doesn't mean you can't also enjoy the lighter ones.

I love to choose the right actors. It's kind of a pleasure to work with them and watch them imbue your concepts that you write.

The older I get, the harder it is to splurge without consequences. I love food. Chocolate and cheese and anything that's bad for me. I'll be really good when I'm at home so I can eat what I want to when I'm out with friends.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

What I do gorge on is sushi. This is the only dish I don't mind overindulging in.

Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.

I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of things you're trying to learn. It protects the short-term memory buffers. That's one theory of pleasure.

Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.

We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.

How sweet it is!

I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

I like anything sweet.

Dark chocolate-covered blueberries are my favorite sweet.

Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.

I have a problem with sweets. I have an inability to eat a just little bit. It's almost like I can't even enjoy chocolate anymore - I have to stuff it into my brain, cram it into my ears.