Quotes About Delight

Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.

The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.

What I always got excited about with 'Arrested Development' was the element of surprise.

I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.

I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work and getting paid to act, and that alone is fantastic; I forget people watch it, too.

Who doesn't love to be surprised?

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

I like surprises.

I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance.

I love surprising the fans.

offer you a veritable Oriental paradise of unlimited raptures!" He

The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

My grandmother knew what a painful life had taught her: success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail. Art may seem to spring from pain, but perhaps that is because pain serves to focus our attention onto details ... the singular image is what haunts us and becomes art. Even in the midst of pain, this singular image brings delight.

But my favorite remained the basic roast chicken. What a deceptively simple dish. I had come to believe that one can judge the quality of a cook by his or her roast chicken. Above all, it should taste like chicken: it should be so good that even a perfectly simple, buttery roast should be a delight.

I was in pure, flavorful heaven at the Cordon Bleu.

Have you anything to declare? Yes, I'd like to declare a small case of French flu, a dangerous fondness for Flaubert, a childish delight in French road-signs, and a love of the light as you look north. Is there any duty to pay on any of these? There ought to be.

It's . . . Titian, Genevieve breathed. I'm sure of it. A slow, awestruck, disbelieving smile took over her face. Stunned pleasure shone from her eyes. And he was certain her heart was racing with the sheer delight of being in the presence of the thing. Because his heart was racing at simply watching her love it.

She was a refreshing diversion in perfection.