#pleasure

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#great #great pleasure #incorrigible #indeed #me

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#being #detective #doing #enjoy #gives

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#extraordinary #go #interested #keen #most

Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#approaching #conquered #disorder #fans #find

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#compared #could #friendly #men #pleasure

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#benign #better #business #droop #gracious

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure. ↗

— Gerald Gould

#pleasure #sake #sin #take #you

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#associates #his #ideas #interests #logic

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

#books #carefully #consolations #contemplative #ever

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#certainly #eventually #gets #himself #i