Please Quotes - Page 15

• You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Heart, Matter, Strive

  19 Copy quote

• If a painting of mine suits me, it is right. If it does not please me, I care not if all the great masters should approve it or the dealers buy it. They would be wrong.

  Arshile Gorky

  Please Me, Doe, Would Be

  7 Copy quote

• Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  136 Copy quote

• Mitt Romney was a guest on 'The Tonight Show' on NBC. It's interesting — you have an empty suit trying to please everyone, and then Romney comes out.

  David Letterman

  Nbc, Interesting, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.

  Walter Lantz

  Two, Office, Cartoon

  6 Copy quote

• I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

  Spencer Tracy

  Depression, Tired, Pretending

  78 Copy quote

• If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Blood, Breathing

  13 Copy quote

• A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

  Maria Mitchell

  Boys, Journey, Please Me

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.

  Walt Disney

  Want, Littles, Worried

  6 Copy quote

• The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

  John Dryden

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  John Dryden (1811). “The poetical works of John Dryden, esq: containing original poems, tales, and translations, with notes”, p.436

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother.

  Peter Hedges

  Mother, Running, People

  Peter Hedges (1999). “What's Eating Gilbert Grape”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trials may come - and we may not understand everything that happens to us or around us. But if we humbly, quietly trust in the Lord, He will give us guidance and strength in every challenge we face. When our only desire is to please Him, we will be blessed with a deep inner peace.

  Bruce D. Porter

  Blessed, Giving, Challenges

  9 Copy quote

• Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.

  Bill Vaughan

  Long, Tire, Conversation

  4 Copy quote

• You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.

  Sarah Silverman

  People, Laughing, Want

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. July 5, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm going to have to take one of my bedrooms and gut it out and make it into a big closet, because now I'm starting to put sneakers in the pantry. Even my maids are like, "No more, please! It's too much!"

  Missy Elliot

  Sneakers, Maids, Too Much

  Source: www.elle.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

  Samantha Shannon

  Writing, Doors, Desperate

  "Samantha Shannon: 'Writing was a drug I couldn't stop taking'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Our Actions, Blank, Rhyme

  4 Copy quote

• You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these men, all the private affections, all the public hopes, all that has been achieved in art, and knowledge and thought and all that might be achieved hereafter is to be wiped out forever. Our ruined lifeless planet will continue for countless ages to circle aimlessly round the sun unredeemed by the joys and loves, the occasional wisdom and the power to create beauty which have given value to human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Art, Powerful

  7 Copy quote

• The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Degrees, Genius, Proportion

  Claude Adrien Helvétius (1807). “De l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind. Transl. To Which are now prefixed, a life of the author and prefatory strictures by W. Mudford”, p.24

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please" and he further claimed that more was to be gained by watching the sun rise than by listening to the Pastoral Symphony. Although such remarks were intended to shock, they contain a core of Debussyan verity.

  Claude Debussy

  Past, Symphony, Listening

  57 Copy quote

• Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: "You just change your attitude now please, young man." This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God, which is a fantastic way of saying I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.

  William Saroyan

  Teacher, Attitude, Kids

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Boys, Parent, Kitchen

  7 Copy quote

• You can't please everybody, man.

  Beck

  Men

  4 Copy quote

• You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

  Theodore Bikel

  Art, People

  4 Copy quote

• He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.

  Johannes Kepler

  Miracle, Doe, Crowds

  Foreword in "De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus" by Johannes Kepler, 1601.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source