#unpleasant

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#deal #else #everyone #hands #i

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

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#willful-ignorance #ignorance

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention. ↗

— Pat Brown

#community #killer #lot #out #serial

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less. ↗

— William John Wills

#been #camels #disappointed #even #fact

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#employment #live #man #poet #unpleasant

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go. ↗

— Matt Groening

#frightened #go #i #just #like

Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible. ↗

— Bob Bartlett

#hills #i #like #over #possible