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Quotes About Delight

How could the sidewalk's impassable leaf-strewn lagoons and the grassy little yards oozing from the flood of the downspouts exude a smell that roused my delight as if I'd been born in a tropical rain forest? Tinged with the bright after-storm light, Summit Avenue was as agleam with life as a pet, my own silky, pulsating pet, washed clean by sheets of falling water and now stretched its full length to bask in the bliss.
~ Philip Roth
Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.
~ David Jeremiah
This must be just like livin' in paradise.
~ David Lee Roth
There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don't see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy
~ David Levithan
Wow, this puts the sweet in Sweet Jesus .
~ David Levithan
Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.
~ David Levithan
Whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. That's the moral of the story. That's it.
~ David Levithan
Lo puedo resumir en una palabra: Felicidad.
~ David Levithan
Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent, said Dusty. But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person. Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?
~ Dean Koontz
up to no good—and pleased about it.
~ Dean Koontz
Poor old Sheba regarded Connolly with much the same amazement and delight as you or I would a monkey who strolled out of the rain forest and asked for a gin and tonic.
~ Zoë Heller
She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!
~ Zora Neale Hurston
they made a lot of laughter out of nothing.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
My absolute favorite food of all time is alpaca.
~ Gail Carriger
Children love cupcakes and so do I - a good one makes the perfect afternoon pick-me-up.
~ Rachel Khoo
I love to eat rajma chawal anytime.
~ Mukul Dev
All the world over we are very conscious of the trees in spring, and watch with delight how the network of twigs on the wych-elms is becoming spangled with tiny puce flowers, like little beetles caught in a spider's web, and how little lemon-colored buds are studding the thorn. While as to the long red-gold buds of the horse-chestnuts — they come bursting out with a sort of a visual bang. And now the beech is hatching its tiny perfectly-formed leaves
~ Unknown
A showThat is really a showSends you outWith a kind of a glowAnd you sayAs you go on your way"That's entertainment."
~ Howard Dietz
It was like suddenly discovering a family of otters in one of your shoes. If you've ever done that.
~ Hugh Laurie
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
~ Hugh Nibley
The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
The man called Kilimanjaro West watched with wonder and delight and everything was new.
~ Unknown
Tis never to early for cake
~ Unknown
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.' When we're delighting in him, our desires come in line with his, not his with what we want.
~ Colleen Coble