Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
