#plea

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#america #around #bush #confusion #depression

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't. ↗

— Edward Furlong

#head #i #pleased #scared #shape

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#football #given #haven #i #i do

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. ↗

— Diogenes

#disgust #first #grapes #intoxication #kinds

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#because #deferring #doing #feel #first

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#act #any #know #like #me

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work. ↗

— Robert James Graves

#learn #original #pleasure #taste #well

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. ↗

— John Dryden

#being mad #know #mad #madmen #none

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone. ↗

— Natasha Hamilton

#everyone #gonna #i #like #please

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. ↗