Delight Quotes - Page 16

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

God made the world for the delight of human beings.

Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.

You can't keep putting the same stuff on all these channels, or it's going to get annoying. We need to aim for 'distinctive ubiquity,’ so we need to be everywhere but we need to continue to surprise and delight our customers in a relevant and consistent way wherever they are.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight

Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that in life we are not the readers but the authors of our own narratives.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

The more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.