Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain,… — Violet Fane Copy Share Image
Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Delight is all around us you know, from the food we eat, to the night sky, to the dreams we have. It… — Jonathan Maas Copy Share Image
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even… — Alvin Francis Poussaint Copy Share Image
I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of… — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The ultimate difference between God's wisdom and man's wisdom is how they relate to the glory of God's grace in Christ crucified.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I honor and revere the name of Joseph Smith. I delight to hear it; I love it. I love his doctrine. I… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire… — Nathaniel Smith Copy Share Image
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
