I’m a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life.
I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I’m kind of a pleasant person – really.
I was terrified of getting the chemo. It’s not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.
It’s pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven’t done much and are a celebrity.
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
When he was not talking about race, David Duke was a very pleasant guy to talk to. He was a very nice conversationalist. He seemed like a regular guy on the phone when the subject wasn’t on race and on Jews and ethnicity.
I don’t know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I’ve never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.
Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they’re connected to.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
Nothing is more pleasant for me than to be on location in the country that I love, in any of our western landscapes, being out there with a camp outfit and a film company.
It was weird – writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I’m a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I’m a female pop celebrity who’s pregnant. It’s a completely mad way to spend your time.
A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You’re never as raw as when the audience first comes in.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears – I had very small ear canals – removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner.
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
‘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.
I’m really trying to be in the now – that’s so spiritual and stuff. It’s just so much more pleasant and sane.
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.
I had a really pleasant time composing music for ‘Raaga.’
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
If I don’t feel like I’m doing the job well, and I don’t know how to get there, or I’m too scared, or whatever, I’m not a happy guy and I’m not pleasant. I’m not pleasant to be around.
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in the midst of gardens. In front of several, I saw large magnolias, their dark, glazed leaves glittering in the March sunshine.
Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it – it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason – I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.
I recently passed through Mumbai airport. I cannot claim it was a pleasant experience. But if I had a choice between Mumbai airport and Euston on a Sunday afternoon, I’d take Mumbai any day.
We had friendly and pleasant relationships with all that worked in our films – many happy memories.
Pancakes are simple. They’re diner food. They’re what you make on a Sunday morning with the kids. Crepes are fancy. They’re French-bistro food. They’re what you make once a week after your Parisian vacation because you want to relive some pleasant memories.
Pancakes are simple. They’re diner food. They’re what you make on a Sunday morning with the kids. Crepes are fancy. They’re French-bistro food. They’re what you make once a week after your Parisian vacation because you want to relive some pleasant memories.
When I first met Salman Butt, he was a senior player, and he was a star for Pakistan, and I was a junior, but he had a very good image amongst the juniors. It wasn’t that he was only nice to me: he was close to all the juniors, cracking jokes and socialising with them and being pleasant to them.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it’s not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we’ll come to trust and respect them more.
There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord.
I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
The first couple of days on the detox diet aren’t pleasant.
It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
When I look at me, I think I’m a good catch. Why wouldn’t somebody like me for me? I’m a pleasant person. I’m an intelligent person. I’m a good person. I’m not bad looking. Why wouldn’t I be able to get somebody to like me?
Luckily, with ‘The Collector’ the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months’ time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.
In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
I have a problem with a lot of men’s fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.
For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment.
Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.
Whether it evokes pleasant memories of holidays in the Caribbean, or best-forgotten outings to Notting Hill, most of us have experienced jerk chicken in one form or another.
As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.
Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job – a lovely added extra to attract people’s attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.
No kidding. That’s really true. You’re paying your own bills through this. It’s not a pleasant experience.
Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don’t think it’s going to reach a point where a machine will generate ideas and styles.
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people – it’s not pleasant, it’s painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.
Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:
I’m kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It’s so pleasant.
