Pleasant Quotes - page 2

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. (Fawn M. Brodie)
Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me 'Pipe a song about a Lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer 'Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped he wept to hear. View quote
William Blake
People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say «I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.». View quote
Audrey Hepburn
'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. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Great God I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. View quote
William Wordsworth
We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. View quote
William Wordsworth
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. View quote
William Wordsworth
It was not pleasant to admit what one is willing to do to go on living. View quote
John Varley
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. View quote
Charles Buxton
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. (Francis Ford Coppola)
How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was n. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture. View quote
Alan Kay
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. View quote
Finley Peter Dunne
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. View quote
Paul
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. View quote
Anthony Holden
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant. View quote
Ivor Novello
However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant. View quote
Nobuo Uematsu
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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. (David Rockefeller)
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. View quote
David Rockefeller
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life. View quote
David Rockefeller
I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year. View quote
Camille Claudel
"To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She wasn't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have a coffee" - on the "ugly" win against Chesterfield. View quote
Ian Holloway