He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. " There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
The good displeases us when we are not up to it.
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.
Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended.
I assure you we'll go on making our decisions without worrying whether it pleases or displeases the Soviet Union, China, America, France, or anyone else.
There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.
