Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then… — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights. — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. — Anna Neagle Copy Share Image
I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Mel [Gibson] could stage physical comedy and put the camera in such a way... I mean, we did some really funny stuff,… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
I no longer take pleasure in perishable food or in the delights of this world. I want only God's bread, which is… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us… — John Piper Copy Share Image
On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight,… — Ferdinand von Mueller Copy Share Image
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a… — Kenneth Rand Copy Share Image
If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me.… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to… — William James Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“It is not presumptuous to ask, 'What is it that you see in me that brings you delight?” — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs… — James Salter Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
The Garden Was My Delight. I grew up with gardeners and I just love gardens. I was always very much aware that… — Hazel Hawke Copy Share Image
In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight — Hugh Massingberd Copy Share Image
There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image