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Quotes About Enjoyment

Well, but how deeply I regret any sadness you have suffered and how grateful I am in anticipation of any good you have enjoyed. That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.
~ Marilynne Robinson
You know, I actually sort of enjoy my life. I know I shouldn't. It could stand a lot of improvement. But maybe it's the feeling you have that makes a life bad. Or makes it all right enough most of the time.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Ce-mi place mie este s? citesc romanele, nu s? le fac autopsia.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it's there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there.
~ Marisha Pessl
Where are you going on vacation?" "Nowhere. I'm going to read. I love reading.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.
~ Marjane Satrapi
The smallest pleasure, like a mouthful of canned fruit or the chance to bathe in an ice-cold river, was a luxury, something to be savored.
~ Mark Bowden
After an Indian meal they went back to Jamie's flat and Tony did at least two things to him on the sofa that no one had ever done to him before then came back and them again the following evening, and suddenly life became very good indeed.
~ Mark Haddon
General S. P. Lyman quotes Webster concluding one recipe: "Such a dish, smoked hot, placed before you, after a long morning spent in exhilarating sport, will make you no longer envy the gods.
~ Mark Kurlansky
I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.
~ Mark Steyn
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
~ Mark Twain
She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.
~ Annie Ernaux
Like I said before, your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Most of us are lucky to see Paris once in a lifetime. Make the most of it by doing as little as possible. Walk a little, get lost a bit, eat, catch a breakfast buzz, have a nap, try and have sex if you can, just not with a mime. Eat again. Lounge around drinking coffee. Maybe read a book. Drink some wine, walk around a bit more, eat, repeat. See? It's easy.
~ Anthony Bourdain
The whole concept of 'the perfect meal' is ludicrous. I knew already that the best meal in the world, the perfect meal, is very rarely the most sophisticated or expensive one....Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Toast your goddamn muffins.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I think people lose sight of the fact that chefs should be ultimately in the pleasure business, not in the look-at-me business.
~ Anthony Bourdain
It was a protein rush to the cortex, a clean, three-ingredient high, eaten with the hands. Could anything be better than that?
~ Anthony Bourdain
Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Life is good. I like my job.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Everything was different now. Everything. I'd not only survived - I'd enjoyed.
~ Anthony Bourdain
What I do I do because I like to do.
~ Anthony Burgess
I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.
~ Anthony Burgess
I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book.
~ Anthony Powell