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Quotes About Delight

There is no better mood changer than dogs delighted to be in your company,
~ Alan Russell
I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
~ Martin Kippenberger
At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.
~ Danny Meyer
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
~ John Denham
My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside.
~ Chester Bennington
I sure do enjoy my ice cream. And I consider a pint a good start.
~ Joshua Malina
While they're still warm, I like to sandwich a chocolate chip cookie with raspberry stracchiatella gelato.
~ Sherry Yard
Desserts are all about form and function, about warm and hot and cold. I want every component to hit your palate on different levels at different times.
~ Sherry Yard
If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.
~ Trent Reznor
I haven't had cotton candy in forever," he said. "I'd forgotten how…sugary it is." "It's pure sugar." "I wonder who invented it." "I think it was a dentist." He laughed, a laugh that revealed his perfect smile, his perfect teeth. "I'll bet you're right.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
overcome with joy when she rolled the window down.
~ RaeAnne Thayne
Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirrored on her sea, Confounding her astronomers, But, oh, delighting me!
~ Ralph Hodgson
It is not the consolations we seek but the Consoler, not their sweetness but the sweet Savior, not their tenderness but him who is the delight of heaven and earth. In this spirit we must resolve to stand fast in a holy love of God even though we may never find any consolation throughout our whole life.
~ Ralph Martin
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
~ Randy Pausch
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Delight, unfortunately, doesn't last. It's like the smile from a beautiful stranger in a stairwell — it's fleeting. It cannot be otherwise — recognition is not an extended process.
~ Raph Koster
Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine.
~ Rawi Hage
I couldn't tell, and I cared not at all. It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to hammer with excitement
~ Ray Kroc