#pleas

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

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#difficult #gradually #me #more #mother

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. ↗

— Richard Branson

#airways #always #battle #british #competitive

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#being #intellectual #issues #knowing #me

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#essence #giving #pleasure

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 am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#being #between #boy #conflict #desire

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. ↗

— Lee Child

#pleasure #thrillers #vicarious

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#backstage #brutalized #bullies #child #come