Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor… — John Ray Copy Share Image
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
“She is very lovely, and if she knows as little about life as she does about acting, she will be a delightful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In my own experience as president of Brazil I observed first hand many of the trends that Nam identifies in this book,… — Fernando Henrique Cardoso Copy Share Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the… — Horace Copy Share Image
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own… — Wilson Flagg Copy Share Image
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are just insane. I've… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine? — William Cowper Copy Share Image
A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which… — Arthur Dove Copy Share Image
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
