I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I’m a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact. – Hugh Grant
I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things. – Howard Jacobson
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while. – John Updike
There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events. – Charles Kennedy
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. – B. C. Forbes
There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25. – Chuck Feeney
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. – Annie Smith Peck
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response. – Al Lewis
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. – B. C. Forbes
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. – Charles Baudelaire
That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can’t get no satisfaction. – Bruce Forsyth
I made ‘Batman’ the way I made every other film, and I’ve done it to my own satisfaction – because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be. – Christopher Nolan
I can’t say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes. – Chantal Kreviazuk
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it. – Geddy Lee
In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. – Moses Mendelssohn
The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries. – Meher Baba
In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of ‘modern values’ – individualism, vitalism and self-expression – there’s also higher reported job satisfaction. – Edmund Phelps
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. – Erich Fromm
I’ve come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that’s what I do primarily now. – Diablo Cody
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. – Elbert Hubbard
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow. – Joseph Butler
Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology. – Martin Seligman
