Pleasingly Quotes

#1. My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

#2. Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. IF MENTAL EMOTIONAL CONCENTRATION FELT FLARED UP WELL MADLY BY TIME INFLUENCE ? MUTUAL SOUL ENJOYMENT IS PLEASINGLY ENSURED.

Various

#4. A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Steven Erikson

#5. The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

Hampton Sides

#6. Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.

Donna Tartt

#7. I see stereotypes as fundamental and inescapable and not as something that is ... The kind of common view is "Oh, we shouldn't think in stereotypes," and I think the reality is we can't help but think in stereotypes.

W. J. T. Mitchell

#8. I feel that the sins of the fathers should not be visited on the sons.

Cassandra Clare

#9. A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.

Louis Nizer

#10. That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

David Attenborough

#12. Even so we need the superstructure of spiritual life if we would have comfort in the day of doubt. But seek not a holy life without faith, for that would be to erect a house which can afford no permanent shelter, because it has no foundation on a rock.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

Dallas Willard

#14. We stared out at the city that hummed and glittered like a computer chip deep in some unknowable machine, holding its secret like a poker hand

Janet Fitch

#15. Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Kim Edwards

#16. That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Hesiod

#17. Every person has something he can serve other people with.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

David Anders