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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.
People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.
Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.
I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.
Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.
People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
I remember the first time I smelled B.O. was at a cross-country meet. But it wasn't unpleasant, in a strange way. That's what you got when you worked hard.
An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.
One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.
There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it.
Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.
Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.
For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.
With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.
Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all.
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
Most of us walk around with our ears switched off because so much noise is unpleasant.
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.
If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.
Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.
Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.
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.
Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.
Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.
...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience.
