I race to win, not to please people.
Bernard Hinault

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.
Paul Reiser

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
Jean M. Auel

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Camille Claudel

I think a lot of it had to do with, you know, I was always a daddy's girl. I was always wanting to please him, and I think he was pleased when he'd walk past my room and I was listening to those records.
Lee Ann Womack

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
Hans Blix

I want to please every woman, every time.
Stuart Rose

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
James Dickey

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.
Samuel Barber

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.
Jack Finney

I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Mary Harris Jones

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.
Anna Held

I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
Craig Bruce

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
Carter Burwell

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.
Jimmy Fallon

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
Terri Windling

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.
Julie Walters

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.
Brian Celio

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
Penn Jillette