Pleasantly Perfect Quotes & Sayings

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines. — H.P. Lovecraft

I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12. — Drake Bell

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man. — Adam Brody

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own. — Myles Horton

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
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"There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."
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"But they used to take morphia and cocaine."
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"Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."
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"Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."
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"Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."
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"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
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"Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
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"Stability was practically assured. — Aldous Huxley

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up! — Michael Scott

In fact, I didn't like traveling first class at all. Yes, it was nice to have a bathroom in a hotel and fine service at breakfast...but none of it seemed foreign enough for me. It was all so pleasantly bland that I felt as if I were back on the SS America. I don't like it when everyone speaks perfect English; I'd much rather struggle with my phrasebook. — Julia Child

No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought. — Sri Chinmoy

I swear to God, Gabriel, if you don't stop, I will lose it. I will go to the bathroom and pull a Britney in the middle of your acceptance speech. — Claire Contreras

I think the first time I was on The David Letterman Show, he didn't quite know what to expect. I think people generally are just a little afraid. — Paul Reubens

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC. — Frank Rich

No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than a one-size-fits-all accountability system developed by Washington bureaucrats. — John Kline

Man is programmed to find the programmer. — Kedar Joshi

I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body. — Sasha Grey

Knowledge is a power that you can borrow; trust is a power which defines your inner strength. — Debasish Mridha

I gotta feel like what I'm giving the fans is 100 per cent and that it's game-changing. I don't just throw out microwave records. — Missy Elliot

Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves. — Martha Beck