#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

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#convenience #defense #eat #entertainment #need

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#doing #find #hard #i #into

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

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#follows #hour #i #love #pleasure

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves. ↗

— Anna Held

#ask #between #divorce #friends #good

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

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. ↗

— Walt Disney

#animation #bring #entertainment #everywhere #information