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Quotes About Delight

Eat, drink, and be merry. Isn't that how it goes?- -There's a second part to that expression. But it's not nearly as much fun.-
~ Neal Shusterman
La Terre est un gâteau plein de douceur.
~ Charles Baudelaire
The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a small child absorbs form and colour. Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self-expression with manhood's capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated.
~ Charles Baudelaire
he child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a small child absorbs form and colour. Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self-expression with manhood's capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated.
~ Charles Baudelaire
We were separated by years, tastes in music, food, clothes, and politics, but we delighted in baseball.
~ Chris Fabry
And maybe," said Marjory, "we can find a few 641.8653 to go with it." "Ooh," said Andrew. "I love doughnuts.
~ Chris Grabenstein
I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.
~ Jan Hus
I love giggling more than anything in the world. It's my favorite thing in the world to do.
~ Bert Kreischer
To me, the most important thing is happiness.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.
~ Tom Robbins
He said, 'The perfect taco.' That's it, those were his last words. He sighed, 'Ahhh,' and said, 'The perfect taco.
~ Tom Robbins
that aspect of being that once was attuned to wonder.
~ Tom Robbins
I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the change was adjustment without improvement.
~ Toni Morrison
They were solitary little girls whose loneliness was so profound it intoxicated them and sent them stumbling into Technicolored visions that always included a presence, a someone, who, quite like the dreamer, shared the delight of the dream.
~ Toni Morrison
I was happy, free in a way I had never been, ever. It was the oddest sensation. Not ecstasy, not satisfaction, not a surfeit of pleasure or accomplishment. It was a purer delight, a rogue anticipation with certainty.
~ Toni Morrison
songs of unreasonable joy.
~ Toni Morrison
It withheld the refreshment in a sleep slept on it. It imposed a furtiveness on the loving done on it. Like a sore tooth that is not content to throb in isolation, but must diffuse its own pain to other parts of the body—making breathing difficult, vision limited, nerves unsettled, so a hated piece of furniture produces a fretful malaise that asserts itself throughout the house and limits the delight of things not related to it.           The
~ Toni Morrison
Good stretched her pleasure.
~ Toni Morrison
Booker's smile traveled from his lips to his eyes. The joy in his face was infantile.
~ Toni Morrison
Like a sore tooth that is not content to throb in isolation, but must diffuse its own pain to other parts of the body—making breathing difficult, vision limited, nerves unsettled, so a hated piece of furniture produces a fretful malaise that asserts itself throughout the house and limits the delight of things not related to it.
~ Toni Morrison
For once, his vampire expression failed him. His response was right there on his face, in full view and easily read. He went from surprise to disbelief then hope and sheer, utter joy all within a split second of each other, then he let loose a huge whoop of delight and swept me into his arms, hugging me fiercely.
~ Keri Arthur
Well, guess what?" Shanna's excited voice interrupted his thoughts. "They're going to have twins! Isn't that exciting!" Robby nodded. "Aye. I can barely contain myself." She gave him a wry look. "You should try to be happy for your friends." "I am. I'm delighted that everyone but me is happily married and multiplying like bloody rabbits.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams" (1 Sam. 15: 22).
~ Kerry L. Skinner
Wally! Isn't he wonderful?
~ Kersten Hamilton