#pleasure

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. ↗

— Lee Child

#pleasure #thrillers #vicarious

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#backstage #brutalized #bullies #child #come

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#fried #get #great #great way #i

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ↗

— Confucius

#conceal #consider #employs #himself #his

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#i #masochistic #music #out #people

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disdain #few #generous #having #pleasures

How delicious is pleasure after torment! ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#delicious #how #pleasure #torment

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#great #great pleasure #i #killed #man

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#every #evidence #facts #false #falseness