#eased

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#belief #college #college students #commencement #into

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. ↗

— John Lennon

#drowning #foresight #help #i #incredibly

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#am #grave #had #him #i

I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff! ↗

— Ted Allen

#apartment #because #chicago #come #crammed

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#five #hours #increased #just #percent

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#close #comes #death #deceased #humanness

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. ↗

— Frances Burney

#behaviour #cannot #characters #history #i

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase. ↗

— Richard Burr

#am #assistance #benefit #bush #bush administration

Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#ever #experience #happened #honest #i

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness