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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• Mediums
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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

• 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
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Animals

• 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
  • Reading
  • Communicate
  • Delight

• The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

  

  Epictetus
  • Experience
  • Pleasure
  • Delight

• 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

• Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Reality
  • Individual
  • Empathy

• In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Road
  • Red

• I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

  

  Cedric Hardwicke
  • Wife
  • Mistress

• Good designers copy; great designers steal.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Copy
  • Designers
  • Steal

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

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Delight
  • Composition
  • Mediums