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.
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.
I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.
I'm pleased we are going to be able to offer job opportunities to so many deserving young people. When we provide youth of all abilities and backgrounds with the experience and skills they need to succeed, we build a brighter future for young people and a stronger Ontario economy.
I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.
I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me.
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.
Many European parties, including the conventional parties in France, no longer have the ability to keep people together. And in terms of the coalition government, I am convinced that Angela Merkel has the necessary will and ambition. I want to be very cautious with my statements about her coalition negotiations, but support for Europe is part of the DNA of both the Greens and the Free Democratic Party. I was very pleased that the heads of both parties spoke out positively about the European project.
The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.
Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
I'm always pleased when people respond to the work
[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain. . . you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.
I always wanted to see what America was like. I had that curiosity in my 20s when I was working in the theatre here [ in London]. . . there was the mystery of LA and I wondered what happened over there. I wanted to go and check it out and I'm pleased that I have.