#pleased

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. ↗

— Jack Vance

#beginning #could #ending #good #graceful

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. ↗

— John Lennon

#drowning #foresight #help #i #incredibly

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#certain #certain age #child #delivers #earnestness

It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#been #catalysis #chemistry #distinction #extend

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#book #child #childhood #feel #hear

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #been #come #determination #games

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 am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#caucus #friends #house #i #i am

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#begins #bombing #fellow #fellow americans #five

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

— Boyd Rice

#any #beyond #classification #existing #me