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.
David Bohm

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

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
Oliver Goldsmith

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman

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

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp

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

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

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.
Francis Ford Coppola

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.
William John Wills

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

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf

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.
Camille Claudel

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
Jonathan Franzen

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

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

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

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.
Rem Koolhaas

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.
Eric Stoltz