Pleasant Quotes - Page 8

• It would be pleasant to be drunk.

  Anne Sexton

  Drunk, Would Be

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you
  have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mean, Fighting, Evil

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• Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Past, Years, Cameras

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• Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!

  Jim Carrey

  Real, Romance, Feelings

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• I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Cancer, Want, Way

  "Verge Q+A: Dr. Jack Kevorkian". Interview with Howie Kahn, www.gq.com. June 28, 2010.

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• One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of being right or knowing, there is life after admitting you don't know and that's beautiful.

  Ben Lee

  Beautiful, Knowing, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in his studio, going over the pages and looking out the window at my kids playing in his swimming pool .

  Mike Royer

  Memories, Kids, Swimming

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Lying, Tunnels

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• The Neurosciences do not exist exclusively to understand man's nature. They also serve a social function, such as in the treatment of the cerebral diseases or when helping us to have a more pleasant and constructive life. It is a thing that one could explore well.

  Rodolfo Llinas

  Men, Disease, Helping

  Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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• Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

  Jay Rayner

  Nice, Unique, Way

  Askmen Interview, uk.askmen.com.

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• Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Long, Fans

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

  Pierre Soulages

  Faces, Helping, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.325

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• It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Vices, Necks, Virtue

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• Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

  Orson Scott Card

  Giving Up, Mean, Medicine

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• Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Love You, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.

  Franz Kafka

  Office, Trying, Horror

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.21, Schocken

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• Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Eloquence

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• If somebody responds positively to what I'm doing - if there is a connection - that can be very meaningful. If someone reacts with displeasure, confusion, hostility, well, that is not pleasant, and can often be upsetting.

  Michael Hersch

  Meaningful, Often Is, Confusion

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

  Herbie Hancock

  People, May, Want

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

  Josh Billings

  Oil, Advice, Easy

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• Let any stranger find mee so pleasant a county, such good way, large heath, three such places as Norwich, Yar. and Lin. in any county of England, and I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them.

  Thomas Browne

  Bees, Three, Vagabonds

  Sir Thomas Browne (1968). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence”

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• I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene?

  Charles Lamb

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.108

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• People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Hate, Thinking

  Public Radio International Interview, October 2006.

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• Cinema informed my painting by the sheer geography - on locations, there is so much downtime. And when you're spending all this time creating art by committee, the concept of the singular voice is a pleasant antidote.

  Billy Zane

  Art, Voice, Creating

  Source: www.etonline.com

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