Unpleasant Quotes

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history.

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.

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.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.