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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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.
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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.
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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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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.
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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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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
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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.
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Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.
