#pleasant

It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#asia #been #children #expertise #given

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#diagnosed #irony #once #problem #realities

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#along #dead #easy #enough #everything

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #back #come #commandments #fact

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#buy #does #form #happiness #misery

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#breaks #change #cinema #evening #gives

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid. ↗

— Will Oldham

#fierce #had #i #i can #kid

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #explores #sense #smell #substances

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#affected #after #appearance #criticisms #had

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. ↗

— William Styron

#find #least #new #pleasant #shall