One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point.
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.
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.
Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.
Whenever I was able to work with Hillary Clinton, it was a great pleasure.
Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.
People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.
Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.
