Working on ‘Outlander’ has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I’d turned into a bit of a Londoner.
Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, she’s harsh and demanding. According to those who haven’t – like her husband – she’s a delight.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors, state and local governments often fail to ask the important questions or consider the long-term impact.
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.
If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
I think Mustique is Duchampian – it will always provide an endless source of delight.
I don’t play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!
Directing Mr. Mohanlal was a delight. He’s completely there and wanting to know what you want him to do. He’s very keen on making sure the director’s vision is realised.
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
‘Rapper’s Delight’ came from the TV entertainment show ‘Good Times,’ but when the times called for a shift in the narrative, artists answered, covering brutal truths in their rhymes that were uncomfortable for society to confront.
I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
I used to delight in eating the most exotic meat on the menu: I’d have the snails, camel, squid or anything else that was going.
I’m not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It’s a very comfortable place to be.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Working with Kajol was a delight, as we complemented each other. She is a seasoned actor, and there is so much to learn from her.
If you can imagine the delight of visiting a theme park where lasting memories are made, we envision ‘Sky’ will sometimes feel like that.
Writing for children isn’t easy. Kids will abandon a story that doesn’t interest, enchant, delight, thrill, or terrify them. But when you can find a way into a young reader’s imagination through something as simple as words on paper, well, there’s nothing more satisfying.
If you call ‘Rapper’s Delight’ an old-school record, I agree with you. If you call Sugar Hill Gang old school, I agree with you. Not because they came out in ’79 or ’80, but because in 2002, that’s still the way Hank and Mike rhyme.
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.
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet’s abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because ‘Possession’ is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
Winning the Asian Games is about the most important thing I have achieved for my country, and seeing the delight on the faces of the people back home is something that will last with me forever.
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ – his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up – I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.
Surfactants allow us to protect a water surface and to generate these beautiful soap bubbles, which are the delight of our children.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
Quality that significantly exceeds the customer’s expectations doesn’t seem to pay off. This ‘delight the customer’ stuff isn’t rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? – and that was a delight.
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
Working with people like Deepti Naval and Siddharth Malhotra is always a delight because they understand the craft and the script is their topmost priority.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
I’m interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how best to live there. That feeling of both citizenship and exile, of always being an expatriate – with all the attendant problems and complications and delight.
From heav’nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
It’s hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.
It’s our job as fiction writers to provide a delight that nothing else can – to such a degree that people have no choice but to read our work. Now that’s a very tall order, if not impossible. But why not try?
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.
1971-79 was when I shared the stage with my father. We did more than 500 plays together. He was a hard worker, and learning from him was more than a delight. The way he faced challenges and political pressure was a treat to watch.
