#pleasure

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#always #approach #characters #fiction #flexible

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure. ↗

— Roger Michell

#different kind #different sort #feeling #films #hollywood

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ↗

— John Mortimer

#forgoing #geriatric #just #pleasure #three

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ↗

— John Mortimer

#about #eat #extra #forgoing #geriatric

My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#always #anxious #children #day #father

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#evolution #inspirational #learning #life #motivational

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#generating #great #joy #multiplying #opportunities

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. ↗

— Annie Smith Peck

#before #climbing #few #follow #going

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. ↗