Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.Roy Blount, Jr.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Jacki Weaver -
You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
Chuck Berry -
When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.
Don McLean -
My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.
Auguste Renoir
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We are God's productions, His compositions.
David Jeremiah -
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost -
God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
C. S. Lewis -
We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.
C. S. Lewis -
Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.
Jim Gaffigan -
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
Anaxagoras
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Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.
William S. Paley -
To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
William Shakespeare -
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
William Albert Allard -
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
William Blake -
Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
John Milton -
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.
Roy Blount, Jr. -
We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Robin Williams -
We’re dealing with the fact that we haven’t got any idea of what we’re doing. If we’re just looking for some arbitrary order, and we can choose among so many possibilities, then what’s the point in putting so much effort in collecting so much data? What do we gain from it, except the ability to impress people with some thick reports or to throw the company into another reorganization in order to hide from the fact that we don’t really understand what we’re doing? This avenue of first collecting data, getting familiar with the facts, seems to lead us nowhere. It’s nothing more than an exercise in futility. Come on, we need another way to attack the issue.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
Roy Blount, Jr.