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Quotes About Delight

Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
~ Quvenzhane Wallis
At the end of the day, I had to learn that it's all about having fun... na'mean?
~ Jay Rock
As long as I'm having fun, I'm happy.
~ Demba Ba
I like laughing and having fun all the time, and I make sure people around me have fun, too.
~ Rupali Ganguly
When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.
~ Paul Prudhomme
We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.
~ Neal Barnard
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
~ George MacDonald
His little heart was so full of merriment that it could not hold it all, and it ran over into theirs.
~ George MacDonald
But the use of the other books seemed free; and day after day I came to the library, threw myself on one of the many sumptuous eastern carpets, which lay here and there on the floor, and read, and read, until weary; if that can be designated as weariness, which was rather the faintness of rapturous delight
~ George MacDonald
Oh, the holy satisfaction of the godly—when it comes to delight in cruelty I'm just a child compared to them
~ George MacDonald Fraser
The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory.
~ George Orwell
It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory.
~ George Orwell
The first half hour of my run is for my body. The last half hour, for my soul. In the beginning the road is a miracle of solitude and escape. In the end it is a miracle of discovery and joy. Throughout, it brings an understanding of what Blake meant when he said, "Energy is eternal delight." I
~ George Sheehan
taken out of his control by that best of good fellows, who descended upon them at that moment with Chloë on his arm, having
~ Georgette Heyer
us! In fact, I shouldn't relish it above
~ Georgette Heyer
Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud....
~ Gerry Spence
Never did food taste better.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
spoil the sense of elation I
~ Gervase Phinn
I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of any deal that's better for me, and I'm always so grateful that readers have indulged me as I argue with myself in my stories.
~ Ken Liu
'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
~ Steve Martin
My motto is: more good times.
~ Jack Nicholson
Everywhere's a party with me - I'm a factory of good times.
~ Nish Kumar
For me, the natural world is always telling big stories about humongous scales of time. And I often feel simultaneously terrified and humbled by those scales and in awe, and delighted that I get to be here; that I'm lucky enough, that we are lucky enough to get experience these things for the tiny finger snap of time that we get to be on Earth.
~ Anthony Doerr
Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.
~ Robert Irvine