I would have been better pleased if you had never made…

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

— Samuel Johnson

“It is better to be pleased by one’s own distastefulness than to please another man’s tastes,”

— Josiah Bancroft

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

— Plato

We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us

— François De La Rochefoucauld

If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more…

— Kathleen Hanna

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

— Cy Coleman

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

— Anonymous

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have…

— Magnus Scheving

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

— Ravi Shankar

It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as…

— Howard Shore

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won…

— Teddy Sheringham

I had a full exorcism performed on me from an archbishop.

— Zak Bagans

I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties.…

— Ira Glass

Because the Internet's there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela…

— King Krule