Pleasurable Moments Quotes

#1. Life's not about the moments of pleasure you, yourself can experience. It's about pleasurable moments you share with someone else that really matter.

Tammy Falkner

#2. Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

Daisaku Ikeda

#3. Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

Joe Bradley

#4. Jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

Penelope Gilliatt

#5. Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Theodore Dalrymple

#6. A human being with no daemon was like someone without a face, or with their ribs laid open and their heart torn out; something unnatural and uncanny that belonged to the world of nightghasts, not the waking world of sense.

Philip Pullman

#7. It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.

Philip Gerard

#8. For people who grew up hunting, especially war veterans, shooting often settled the mind. It was something that required full concentration, and therefore took you away from your troubles, at least for a short time.

Taya Kyle

#9. There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not present. That is why when we ask the question, "Who's in control?" we can answer without equivocation, "God is!

Billy Graham

#10. The automobile crash was ... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about ... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.

James Rosenquist