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Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Quotes by George Pierce Baker

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Quotes by George Pierce Baker

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Quotes by George Pierce Baker

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Quotes by George A. Sheehan

Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely.

Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

Quotes by Fredrik Bajer

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

Quotes by Fred Willard

Probably dancing to Cassie's 'Me & U' - That's my guilty pleasure.

Quotes by Freddie Gibbs

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

Quotes by Franz Wright

At Bayern, I have rediscovered the pleasure of playing. Here, my body is completely free.

Quotes by Franck Ribery

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Quotes by Francois Fenelon

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Quotes by Francis Picabia

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

Quotes by Francis Spufford

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

Quotes by Frances Burney

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

Quotes by Felix Dennis

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

Quotes by Ezra Stiles

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Quotes by Euripides

The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.

Quotes by Estelle

The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.

Quotes by Esa-Pekka Salonen

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

Quotes by Ernst Mach

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Quotes by Erica Jong

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Quotes by Enid Bagnold

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

Quotes by Ellie Kemper

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Quotes by Ellen G. White

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Quotes by Edward Young

My guilty pleasure, to be frank with you, is 'The Monkees.'

Quotes by Edward Kitsis

I play for pleasure, for the passion that I have as a football player.

Quotes by Edinson Cavani

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Quotes by Douglas Wilson

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

Quotes by Douglas Hurd

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

Quotes by Douglas Tompkins

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Quotes by Donna Leon

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

Quotes by Donald Norman

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

Quotes by Don Cornelius

It was a big pleasure to play a Grand Slam match on my birthday.

Quotes by Dominic Thiem

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Quotes by Diogenes

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.

Quotes by Diablo Cody

It would be a pleasure to play against England. They are one of the top teams.

Quotes by Dejan Lovren

It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.

Quotes by Debra Granik

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

Quotes by Debra Messing

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the father part.

Quotes by Debbie Reynolds

I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.

Quotes by Dean Devlin

I'm acting for the pleasure of it.

Quotes by David Morse

'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a lot of pleasure out of things that aren't new.

Quotes by David Hepworth

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Quotes by David Foster Wallace

I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard!

Quotes by Dave Legeno

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.

Quotes by Danny Meyer

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

Quotes by Dana Plato

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Quotes by Dale Carnegie

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

Quotes by Crescent Dragonwagon

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Quotes by Cornel West

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

Quotes by Clarence Darrow

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Quotes by Clarence Darrow

I've been playing football for 23 years and with more than 30 nationalities; that has been a pleasure.

Quotes by Clarence Seedorf

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

Quotes by Chuck Close

One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time.

Quotes by Chuck Hogan

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Quotes by Christoph Martin Wieland

The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

Quotes by Christian Bale

High heels are pleasure with pain.

Quotes by Christian Louboutin

Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.

Quotes by Chris Coleman

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

Quotes by Chauncey Wright

It is a real pleasure to collaborate with Frida Giannini and Gucci to celebrate one of the House's most elegant symbols: the horsebit.

Quotes by Charlotte Casiraghi

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

Quotes by Charles Lamb

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

Quotes by Charles Glover Barkla

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Quotes by Charles Eames

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

For me it's a pleasure to be trained by Zidane. I am just very thankful for all he has been asking me to do and for helping me to evolve.

Quotes by Casemiro

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

Quotes by Carly Simon

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Quotes by Carl Hiaasen

Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.

Quotes by Cara Delevingne

I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.

Quotes by Burt Young

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

Quotes by Brooke Shields

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

Quotes by Brian Lumley

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

Quotes by Brian Grazer

I don't eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.

Quotes by Bobby Lashley

I get no pleasure from politics; it's not in my character.

Quotes by Bidzina Ivanishvili

L. Ram Saran Das was a member of the revolutionary party which was held responsible for many a violent deed. But this by no means proves that revolutionaries are bloodthirsty monsters, seeking pleasure in destruction.

Quotes by Bhagat Singh

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Quotes by Bernard Tschumi

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

My guilty pleasure is sugar.

Quotes by Behati Prinsloo

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

Quotes by Barbara McClintock

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Quotes by Balthus

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Quotes by B. C. Forbes

It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.

Quotes by Aslaug Magnusdottir

I had the pleasure of working for 'The Late Show' with O'Brien when I was an NBC page at 30 Rockefeller Center, and it was always so much fun.

Quotes by Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

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

Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Quotes by Arthur Helps

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Quotes by Arthur Adamov

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

My guilty pleasure is 'Britain's Next Top Model'.

Quotes by April Pearson

Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer; I learned it over time.

Quotes by Antonya Nelson

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Quotes by Aphra Behn

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