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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts. -- Karolina Kurkova
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. -- Geraldo Rivera
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Bagehot
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well. -- Juan Manuel Fangio
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. -- Clarence Darrow
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. -- Barbara McClintock
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. -- Albert Einstein
I love food and I love ingredients and I love reading recipes. It's just a great pleasure. -- Cara Buono
It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible. -- Stefan Hell
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. -- Joseph Joubert
I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it. -- Janeane Garofalo
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off. -- Alex Trebek
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person. -- Terry Gross
Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.' -- Sigrid Agren
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure. -- Alain Ducasse
There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give. -- Robert Mondavi
I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way. -- George Carey
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. -- Samuel Butler
I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure. -- Geraldine Chaplin
In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it. -- Mireille Guiliano
The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued. -- William Banting
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Michael Leunig
I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one. -- John Lydon
I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad. -- Wayne Dyer
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. -- Robert South
The great source of pleasure is variety. -- Samuel Johnson
Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure. -- Jerzy Kukuczka
What a great pleasure to work for your living? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. -- Margaret Fuller
Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger. -- Philip Yancey
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics -- Geraldo Rivera
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great. -- Euripides
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. -- Balthus
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. -- John Dryden
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. -- Willa Cather
Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage. -- Toni Servillo
A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't. -- Paulo Coelho
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. -- Katherine Cecil Thurston
Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends? -- C. S. Lewis
Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it. -- Steven Morrissey
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. -- Leo Tolstoy
The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge. -- Amy Bloom
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived. -- Ernie J Zelinski
The writing is so great on TV now; it's such a pleasure to watch. -- Rose Byrne
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure. -- Edmund Burke
I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. -- William Shatner
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. -- Martin Heidegger
The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. -- Walter Bagehot
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. -- George Bernard Shaw
The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical. -- James Boswell
Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure. -- Tobsha Learner
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer. -- Carl Linnaeus
I play for me and I play to win, but it gives me great pleasure to represent Mexico. -- Lorena Ochoa
Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire? -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. -- Pope Paul VI
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter -- Tacitus
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. -- Alaa Al Aswany
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences. -- Horace
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth. -- John Bunyan
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour! -- Benito Mussolini
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. -- Lord Byron
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. -- Joseph Addison
The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity. -- Jane Pauley
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. -- Paul Nurse
If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans. -- Christopher Lambert
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. -- Samuel Johnson
This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. -- Robert Wilson Lynd
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure. -- Jerry Smith
I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure -- Oscar Wilde
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. -- Francesco Guicciardini
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. -- Benjamin Franklin
I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best. -- Roland Emmerich
Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure. -- Umberto Eco
It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created. -- Anders Hejlsberg
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle. -- Jonathan Lethem
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it. -- John Selden
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. -- Suzanne Curchod
It is always a great pleasure, and surprise, when you happen on just the perfect place in which to plant some special treasure. -- Margery Fish
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow. -- Jane Austen
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius. -- Thomas Mann
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I. -- Henry David Thoreau
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'. -- Plutarch
To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner. -- Holly Near
If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great. -- Gautama Buddha
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food. -- Gayle King
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people. -- Colleen McCullough
The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that. -- Norton Juster
Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. -- Neville Marriner
Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it. -- Nicolas Chamfort
We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure. -- Joe Paterno
Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire? -- C. S. Lewis
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I've had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is just a beautiful, talented young lady. -- Chris Lowell
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. -- Leo Tolstoy
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried. -- Hillary Clinton
The poet or the story-teller who cannot give the reader a little ghostly pleasure at times never can be either a really great writer or a great thinker. -- Lafcadio Hearn
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd. -- Warren Buffett
The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you -- Brother Lawrence
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters. -- Cennino Cennini
That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes. -- Isabella Rossellini
I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that. -- Siri Hustvedt
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes. -- Margaret Way
Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives. -- Samuel Johnson
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound. -- Clara Schumann
Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure. -- Naomi Watts
In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party. -- Chris Murray

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