#pleas

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#doing #feel #filmmakers #find #had

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#different #different ways #evaluate #hard #hard thing

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#clear #gain #order #pain #pleasure

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. ↗

— William Shenstone

#chief #leads #making #pleasure #unhappiness

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby. ↗

— Mia Maestro

#guilty #hobby #i #i love #life

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#babe #between #earth #house #innocence

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#before #book #book tour #gratifying #had

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. ↗

— Kenko Yoshida

#before #beyond #book #compare #converse

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain. ↗

— Anne Rice

#pain #pleasure

I enjoyed working with Peter, I was very pleased when I heard he was going to be the Doctor. ↗

— Sarah Sutton

#enjoyed #going #heard #i #peter