Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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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.
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When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
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I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.
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My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.
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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.
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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.
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We are God's productions, His compositions.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.
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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.
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In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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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.
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Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
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A man's soul can be judged by the way he treats his dog.
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Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
