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

• 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

• To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Consider
  • Delight
  • Kingdom

• 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

• I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Mean

• Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.

  

  Michael Chabon
  • Chance
  • Mysterious
  • Curious

• Dawn, ever bearing some divine increase Of beauty, love, and wisdom round the world, Dawn, like a wild-rose in the fields of heaven Washed grey with dew, awoke, and found the barque At anchor in a little land-locked bay.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Heaven

• There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

  

  Hayden Schlossberg
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Laugh

• I’m always about stuffing as many drawings as I can into one second

  

  Chad VanGaalen
  • Can
  • Second
  • Drawings

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

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Delight
  • Composition
  • Mediums