Pleasant Quotes

• Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Feel
  • Sweet
  • Figure

• There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Way
  • Stage

• The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • Tree
  • Social

• Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Leader
  • Purchasing
  • Warlike

• We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Think
  • Ideas

• But . . . I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Heart

• When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Remember
  • Sometimes
  • Actors

• Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.

  

  Meriwether Lewis
  • Numbers
  • Hunting
  • Camps

• I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.

  

  Will Davis Campbell
  • Seriously
  • While
  • Yale

• You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!

  

  Bernardino of Siena
  • Woman
  • Don't Think
  • Converse

• I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • Play
  • Able
  • Break

• I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Realizing
  • Satisfaction
  • Solutions

• Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Game
  • Pleasant
  • Battledore

• We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

  

  William Boyd
  • Hours
  • Half
  • Filth

• I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Beautiful
  • Looks
  • Pleasant

• Fresh October brings the pheasant, Then to gather nuts is pleasant.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • October
  • Nuts
  • Pheasant

• Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

  

  Michael Crawford
  • Sometimes
  • Divorce
  • Pleasant

• What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

  

  Kate Langley Bosher
  • Believe
  • Moments
  • Humans

• It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Think
  • Alone
  • Pleasant

• You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

  

  Daniel Lapin
  • Increase
  • Maintain
  • Dramatically

• Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

  

  Ray Stevens
  • Wonder
  • Purple
  • Jeremiah

• Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • Littles
  • Pleasant
  • Surprising

• Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Life
  • Problems
  • Rule

• The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

  

  Plutarch
  • Army
  • Pleasant
  • Participants

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