Quotes About Delight

Ei mikään vedä vertoja oluen ensimmäiselle puraisulle.

The Word is a symbol and a delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic pattern.

SOMETIMES A KIND OF GLORY lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the

printings, he told Pascal Covici, his editor at The Viking Press, that he was "immensely pleased

Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.

I have a fantasy that might be fun. Why don't we try it?

Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!

Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Life is short...eat desert first!!

Always do what makes you happy.

When I raised a corner of the heavy curtain of habit (the stupefying habit which during the whole course of our life conceals from us almost the whole universe, and in the dead of night, without changing the label, substitutes for the most dangerous or intoxicating poisons of life some kind of anodyne which does not procure any delight), such a memory would come back to me

The scientist does not study Nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If Nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if Nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.' One

She smiled slightly as she continued to gaze at the passing scene: she was being a snob and delighting in it.

Ladybugs all dressed in red Strolling through the flowerbed. If I were tiny just like you I'd creep among the flowers too!

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.