It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you’re writing mysteries – oh, no, you can’t have an ending like that. It must be tidy.
I had a hard time going to school. I probably wasn’t the most pleasant young person to be around. I kept a very tight circle of trusted people.
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
No connection to the average voter – Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don’t have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It’s like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.
Truthfully, the process of making 22 episodes of television a year is not very pleasant.
I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa’s Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.
Dead bodies do get a grayish blue/purple hue because blood pools in the capillaries and the body starts to decompose. It’s not smurf blue, but it’s not a pleasant shade.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.
One thing I struggled with early in my career was the delicate balance between my performance and my identity. When things on the field went well, I was cheerful and felt important. When things went poorly, my countenance and self-concept plummeted, and I was not pleasant to be around.
You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I’m a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
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.
Watching people move to nice music is very pleasant.
I don’t like violence, in reel or real life. I prefer the quiet, beautiful genre of movies where everything is rosy and pleasant. I stay away from extreme sadness in my scripts and, somehow, I can’t make movies for kids.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It’s not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.
Tiangong 1, our home in space, was comfortable and pleasant.
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
What’s important is that a customer should get off the airplane feeling, ‘I didn’t just get from A to B. I had one of the most pleasant experiences I ever had, and I’ll be back for that reason.’
I’ve met some very difficult people and I’ve had some very difficult conversations and had lots of criticism, especially from away supporters who sing songs that aren’t very pleasant. So I think part and parcel of life is accepting that not everyone likes you.
All my memories of ‘Father Ted’ are very pleasant.
Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he’s just really doesn’t have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it’s difficult and what he’s really doing.
President Obama hasn’t been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.
The particular way I’m going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won’t be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind.
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.
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.
He gains everyone’s approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.
Life in Dehradun is far more relaxing and pleasant than life in Mumbai.
I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I’ll never do that again. It wasn’t pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it’s like, ‘Look how cool they are,’ but it’s just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating – but then I realized he was the one cheating.
I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies’ club.
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I’d get up at 4 A.M. to work as a cleaner before school. It wasn’t pleasant.
It’s always a pleasant experience while acting because I like to surprise myself and the audience with what I do.
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
I’ve seen former vice president, and now Democratic leadership candidate Joe Biden up close. He seemed a pleasant fellow. But I’m damned if I can remember anything he said, besides how much he loves everybody.
My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
There’s only one thing, in the end, and that’s singing truth in a pleasant way.
I try to do my job and be a decent person, and a decent person has the courage to face what is not necessarily pleasant, what is perhaps dark and troublesome.
Home wasn’t a pleasant place to live, growing up.
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they’re riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
‘Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
