Pleasant Quotes

There are three easy ways of losing money - racing is the quickest, women the most pleasant, and farming the most certain.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

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.

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

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.

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.

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.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.

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.

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

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.