Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came; and if the village had been beautiful at first, it was now in the full… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful. — Horace Copy Share Image
He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory.… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just… — Matthew Hayden Copy Share Image
Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't know if you're ever prepared for public scrutiny. I don't know if you can even mentally prepare yourself for it.… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
