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Quotes About Enjoyment

I ate and drank slowly as one should (cook fast, eat slowly) and without distractions such as (thank heavens) conversation or reading. Indeed eating is so pleasant one should even try to suppress thought. Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Every meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
~ Iris Murdoch
male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.
~ Iris Murdoch
How sad for those who cannot enjoy what are after all prime pleasures of daily life, and perhaps for some the only ones, eating and drinking.
~ Iris Murdoch
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better. Life
~ Iris Murdoch
enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy.
~ Iris Murdoch
You said you were having fun. Well, yes and no, strictly speaking I was in hell. Perhaps I have always been there. One can have fun in hell.
~ Iris Murdoch
Uno de los secretos de una vida feliz es la continuidad de los pequeños placeres, y si algunos pueden ser baratos y conseguidos sin demora, tanto mejor.
~ Iris Murdoch
Analysing novels meant ripping oot their soul and it destroyed my enjoyment of them. Ah couldnae allow masel tae be trained tae thing that way. Only by refusing tae study literature was ah able tae maintain ma passion for it.
~ Irvine Welsh
Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun.
~ Irvine Welsh
When you hurt some cunt […] it's you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you've done it for fuck all, it means nothing
~ Irvine Welsh
Actually, Paris wakes up when it comes time for aperitif.
~ Irving Stone
La bondad desgasta mucho, te lo he advertido. Los malos se divierten más y llegan a viejos en mejores condiciones que los santos como tú.
~ Isabel Allende
La vida está llena de ironías, mejor gozar lo que se tiene ahora, sin pensar en un mañana hipotético
~ Isabel Allende
No puedo separar el erotismo de la comida y no veo razón para hacerlo, al contrario, pretendo seguir disfrutando de ambos mientras las fuerzas y el buen humor me alcancen.
~ Isabel Allende
Para levantar el ánimo, nada mejor que un capuccino doble inyectado en la vena y una medialuna olorosa, que alivian temporalmente el susto.
~ Isabel Allende
Old age is the best moment to be and do whatever you enjoy. Soon no one will be able to bear me.
~ Isabel Allende
years. Thanks to them, she was saved from boredom, one of the scourges of old age. The rest of the Lark House community was like the view of the bay: something to be enjoyed from a distance, without getting her feet wet. For
~ Isabel Allende
Don't look for excuses. The truth is that the older I get, the more I like my defects. Old age is the best moment to be and do whatever you enjoy. Soon no
~ Isabel Allende
You've got to enjoy yourself. The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
~ Ishiguro, Kazuo
I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people.
~ Ishmael Beah
The zeitgeist tells us that we 'should' prefer dark chocolate much the same as we should prefer wine, coffee, and whiskey with flavor profiles that run toward the extreme. But sometimes I just want to eat something accessible and enjoyable without embarking on a cerebral tasting exercise.
~ Chris Morocco
I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
~ Vidya Balan
I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
~ Zakk Wylde
I really don't listen to Led Zeppelin that much.
~ Jimmy Page