The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Choreography is mentally draining but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Please write music like Wagner only louder.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods there is rapture in the lonely shore there is society where none intrudes by the deep sea and music in its roar I love not Man the less but Nature more.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths and neglect it in practice are like a harp which emits a sound pleasing to others while itself is insensible of the music.

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

To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about but the inner music that words make.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure making the music sound sweeter the wine taste richer the laughter ring louder because they are there.

When I was a kid I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter but I think you can recognise my films.

I've been involved with violent movies and then I've also said at a certain point 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know you've got to respect the filmmaker and it's a really tough issue.

Now if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French based upon movies rumors recent headlines unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

If people are constantly reading about you and you're overexposed they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man even though I know he's guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me as he had done before an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have rein in spending live within a budget.