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
  • Theater
  • Delight
  • Shock

• 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
  • People
  • Writing
  • Composition

• When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Good
  • President
  • Delight

• I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

  

  Don McLean
  • Music
  • Laughing
  • Satan

• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • inspirational
  • Delight

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• 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
  • Expression
  • Delight
  • Spirituality

• We are God's productions, His compositions.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Composition
  • Productions

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Wisdom
  • Delight
  • Poem

• 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
  • God
  • Giving
  • Needs

• 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
  • God
  • Long
  • Promise

• 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
  • Kind
  • Performers
  • Mediums

• 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
  • Composition
  • Greeks
  • DIssolved

• Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.

  

  William S. Paley
  • Television
  • Advertising
  • Selling

• To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Business
  • Delight

• In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

  

  William Albert Allard
  • Color
  • Photography
  • Composition

• The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

  

  William Blake
  • Soul
  • Delight
  • Defiled

• Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

  

  John Milton
  • Society
  • Harmony
  • Delight

• Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Law
  • Powerful
  • Mediums

• Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Germany
  • Misfortune
  • Poisoned

• I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Sometimes

• It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Reading

• The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power, when through its results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity to sleep. If some occasionally awake they carry out crimes that horrify humanity which has not yet become Christian in the full sense of the word or has already abandoned the Christian framework.

  

  Bruno Bauer
  • Power
  • Humanity
  • Sense

• Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Delight
  • Composition
  • Mediums