Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
Roy Blount, Jr.
Quotes to Explore
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Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.
D. T. Suzuki
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We are God's productions, His compositions.
David Jeremiah
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
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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
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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
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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
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For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.
Aristotle
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
Virginia Woolf
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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
Epictetus
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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
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
William Shakespeare
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To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
Albert Camus
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I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never interfere with the subject. The subject has to fall into place on its own and, if I don't like it, I don't have to print it.
George Rodger
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Why did I decide to become an actor ? I decided because my brother helped me decide. I knew nothing about the entertainment industry, and never thought I actually would. I never had an interest in it. I grew up not watching many movies or rarely watching TV.
George Stults
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When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
Eustace Budgell
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exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.
Stephen Dunn
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Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
Roy Blount, Jr.
