#pleas

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family. ↗

— Kate Smith

#family #friends #friends and family #most #own

What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#being #could #greatest #greatest pleasure #i

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense. ↗

— Jerry Wexler

#down #great #hear #her #i

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brain #cognition #content #contentment #creativity

In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#change #character #empowerment #love #men

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ↗

— John Mortimer

#about #eat #extra #forgoing #geriatric

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over. ↗

— Byron Nelson

#arnold palmer #call #eisenhower #faces #i

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself. ↗

— Ricky Nelson

#gotta #please #please everyone #you #yourself

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

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