#pleasure

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy. ↗

— Richard Steele

#pleasure #praise #praiseworthy #receiving

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ↗

— William Styron

#doing #each #face #feeling #fine

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#away #been #comeback #disbanded #get

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#both #clapton #eric #eric clapton #friends

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ↗

— William Trevor

#author #autobiography #based #case #distress

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#hunting #pleasure #problem #problem solving #savage

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#entertain #entertainment #entertainment business #gives #lots

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#itself #mind #more #pleasure #really

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#health #luxury #pain #pleasure #rest

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working. ↗

— Dana Plato

#honest #i #pleasure #to be honest #working