Pastoral Resources

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

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

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.

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.