Top 40 Pleasurable Quotes

Here we have the best Pleasurable Quotes from famous authors such as Charles Eames, S. E. Hinton, Olivia Williams, Mark Barrowcliffe, Michael Kennedy. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Charles Eames

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

S. E. Hinton

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

Olivia Williams

Let me start with a confession: I don’t enjoy cooking. The reason I usually do it at home is not because I’m a New Man or Jamie Oliver disciple, but because my wife‘s cooking is so bad. In fact, to me, cooking is less a pleasurable pastime than a defense against poisoning.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism – way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Michael Kennedy

Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They’re powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world.

Gerald Vizenor

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.

Julie Burchill

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am a creator of TV shows. ‘Lifestyle‘ ran for 14 years… that was pleasurable. We also had ‘Runaway‘ for eight years. We did two years of a show called ‘The Start of Something Big’, and we did a network series called ‘Fame, Fortune and Romance.’

Robin Leach

I don’t hate work, composing is not work for me, it’s my pleasure; it’s my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

Gunther Schuller

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people – and also so pleasurable – make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There’s a chaos agent quality to them: You just don’t know who’s going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who’s become an enemy.

Alexander Chee

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

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

John Cho

I do watch ‘American Idol‘ sometimes. It’s not really that pleasurable… I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there’s some good singers on that show.

M. Ward

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

The podcast revolution has taught us that women‘s voices aren’t just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential.

Michelle Dean

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it’s found an audience and is critically well received, that’s a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don’t want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone‘s DVD collection.

Cate Blanchett

Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don’t consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

Lee Thompson Young

Don’t allow negative people to steal your time and energy. Rather than complain about people you don’t enjoy, choose to strike up conversations about pleasurable topics.

Amy Morin

Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That’s quite pleasurable.

Mika

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.

Lysander Spooner

When you skip to a beat, it is a much more pleasurable way to stay active. It becomes a mixture of dance and skip.

Miquita Oliver

I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you’re alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.

Alfonso Cuaron

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I’m lucky. I’m just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable – for me – talent, which is being able to act.

James Woods

There’s lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it’s your own creation, it’s more pleasurable because you have total control.

Steven Knight

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren’t expecting.

Borns

When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

C K Williams

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 find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I’ve always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

F. Sionil Jose

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

Edward Weston

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

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while ‘Foster the People’ plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

Maggie Stiefvater

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

J. K. Rowling

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it’s pleasurable because it’s self-righteous.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

Cathy Marie Buchanan