An ideal museum show would . . . be a mating of Brideshead Revisited . . ., with House Garden. . . ., provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.
An ideal museum show would . . . be a mating of Brideshead Revisited . . ., with House Garden. . . ., provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.
We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be.
It was the most pleasurable thing I've ever done, playing this character, and I just remember feeling so at home and so - I don't know, I was just happy - and it just wasn't ever work! It was like a sandbox for me, and I would crack myself up rehearsing.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
Knowing you'll have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.'
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
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