I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.
Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive.
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.
Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
If I tape an 11-hour day, guess which parts end up on air. Not the bits when I'm pleasant, but the parts when I'm obnoxious.
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.
All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
Baltimore is warm but pleasant. . . I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here, somewhere - real close-up. I really couldn't have done it if I hadn't been through a lot one way or another. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so it's not a pleasant feeling!
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.