One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I’ve managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I’m in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
The reach of ‘Hamilton’ never surprises me. It’s always a delight to meet someone who’s seen the show.
Mirrors are part of my life and an ever-changing source of delight, displeasure or even disaster, depending on which one I am looking in. I look in a magnifying mirror when I pluck my eyebrows in the morning, full-length mirrors every day in rehearsal, and I often nervously bring out a compact to check my make-up.
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.
You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
It might sound strange to describe New Yorkers as insecure when they delight so much in the cult of success. The display of wealth here, especially new wealth, is indeed wonderfully frank, from the super-long limousines which clog up the roads to the voluptuous fur coats that adorn both men and women.
I’ve been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.
I love a good bowl of cereal. The unhealthy kind. Lucky Charms. Sometime I’ll do Special K Chocolatey Delight, and I feel like I’m being healthy, but there’s chocolate in there.
My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that’s the shape of the language. I didn’t make that shape.
The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That’s why I love drawing.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
The curious thing is that I embraced homosexuality with as much joy and delight as I’ve embraced everything else in my life.
Among politicians, I would say Sonia Gandhi is not exactly a cartoonist’s delight.
It is an absolute delight to work with Ranveer. He is a thorough professional and at the same time, he is such a cool guy.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
If there’s delight in love, ‘Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
I love the look of delight on my guests’ faces when I serve them a bowl of olive-oil aioli alongside roasted potatoes or a grand Nicoise salad.
I can’t imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are few who can do both.
When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Mothers of all ages delight in their children, but I don’t know that, if I were younger, I would feel as acutely, profoundly, preciously grateful for every smile, squeal, and – yes – diaper blowout.
