For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.

- Elizabeth McCracken

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

- Jane Austen

Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

- Irving Langmuir

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.

- Helen Dunmore

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

- Henry David Thoreau

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

- George Plimpton

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

- George Gurdjieff

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

- Frederik Pohl

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

- Aristotle

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.

- Charles Buxton

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

- C. S. Lewis

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

- Bernard Malamud

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

- Busy Philipps

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures.

- Alison Goldfrapp

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.

- Aimee Bender

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

- Alice Sebold

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

- A. J. Liebling