#please

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one. ↗

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#athens #bad #beforehand #deal #everybody

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#country #earlier #focus #get #getting

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#babies #car #else #everybody #everybody else

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#any #beyond #classification #existing #me

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#cat #friend #him #man #must

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#nothing #please #those #us

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it. ↗