The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera and when he had a success he was beaming.

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

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.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful they do not excite desire.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers all alone in their studios with no one watching.

When you stand alone and sell yourself you can't please everyone. But when you're different you can last.

It is the fight alone that pleases us not the victory.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone and that I have no one to tell it to.

The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English but with not one recognizable syllable.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day and thinks to please by its old graces it is only an object of ridicule.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

O love if I regret the age when one savors you it is not for the hour of pleasure but for the one that follows it.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

Old age has its pleasures which though different are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.