#plea

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much. ↗

— Sam Phillips

#black #certain #certain feeling #cotton #developed

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. ↗

— George Plimpton

#biography #editor #jury #oral #pleasures

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. ↗

— Georges Pompidou

#gambling #most #pleasant #quickest #roads

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#gall #hath #heart #her #honey

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. ↗

— Robert Quine

#early #experience #i #into #lessons

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pleasure #time #jane-austen

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#generations #great #great pleasure #having #pleasure

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well. ↗

— Rene Rivkin

#beings #fellow #fellow human beings #human #human beings

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#am #distinctions #fact #food #honored