#plea

It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#bands #been #good #good band #i

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#i #people #pleased #respond #work

I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.' ↗

— Cat Osterman

#donor #find #give #had #headphones

It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#been #catalysis #chemistry #distinction #extend

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. ↗

— Clive Owen

#find #i #lot #masculine #means

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amount #audience #communicating #denying #exist

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#agreeable #appreciated #cold #continuity #continuous

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cause #consciousness #falsity #ignorance #inconstancy

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. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#bloody #earth #end #forever #head

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ↗

— Jean Paul

#mere #more #pleasure #something #than