#pleasant

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. ↗

— David Bowie

#center #changes #experience #gone #guess

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#paparazzi #people #really #terrify #torment

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#hard #hard work #how #less #much

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#come #confrontations #forward #i #kind

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. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#am #beautiful #certainly #days #end

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#involvement #limiting #lives #minimum #other

For too long we have been the playthings of massive corporations, whose sole aim is to convert our world into a gargantuan shopping 'mall'. Pleasantry and civility are being discarded as the worthless ephemera of a bygone age; an age where men doffed their hats at ladies, and children could be counted on to mind your Jack Russell while you took a mild and bitter in the pub. The twinkly-eyed tobacconist, the ruddy-cheeked landlord and the bewhiskered teashop lady are being trampled under the mighty blandness of 'drive-thru' hamburger chains. Customers are herded in and out of such places with an alarming similarity to the way the cattle used to produce the burgers are herded to the slaughterhouse. The principal victim of this blandification is Youth, whose natural propensity to shun work, peacock around the town and aggravate the constabulary has been drummed out of them. Youth is left with a sad deficiency of joie de vivre, imagination and elegance. Instead, their lives are ruled by territorial one-upmanship based on brands of plimsoll, and Youth has become little more than a walking, barely talking advertising hoarding for global conglomerates. ... But now, a spectre is beginning to haunt the reigning vulgarioisie: the spectre of Chappism. A new breed of insurgent has begun to appear on the streets, in the taverns and in the offices of Britain: The Anarcho-Dandyist. Recognisable by his immaculate clothes, the rakish angle of his hat and his subtle rallying cry of "Good day to you sir/ madam! ↗

— Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood

#britain #chap #chappism #chaps #civility

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me: ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#many #me #pleasant #rewarding #rewarding experiences

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does. ↗

— Tom Petty

#audience #does #had #i #idea

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience. ↗

— John Portman

#better #create #environment #experience #humanity