Best 59 quotes in «delightful quotes» category

Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else.

The delight of the spirit leads to life.

We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift.

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded in the annals of science: quantum physics. Listen to those who have spent their lives immersed in this world and you will have a sense of the challenge we face. After making his groundbreaking discoveries in quantum physics, Werner Heisenberg recalled, "I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?" Einstein declared after one discovery, "If it is correct it signifies the end of science." Schrödinger was so shocked by the implications of what he'd cooked up that he admitted, "I do not like it and I am sorry I had anything to do with it." Nevertheless, quantum physics is now one of the most powerful and well-tested pieces of science on the books. Nothing has come close to pushing it off its pedestal as one of the great scientific achievements of the last century. So there is nothing to do but to dive headfirst into this uncertain world. Feynman has some good advice for me as I embark on my quest: "I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

Tulsi, beyond any perceivable clouds of skepticism, was the best living form of beauty known—the matchless delight, the most generous blessing granted to a human eyeball.

We used to say, we’re no beauties, because it was impossible to tell the truth. In bed, we were beauties. We were goddesses. We were the little girls we’d never been: loved, saucy, delighted, and delightful.

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Even though I've done a lot it also feels like I haven't done a lot. I've sort of popped in for supporting roles in things, and that's been really delightful.

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

I like pineapple. It's delightful.

It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Never less than bizarrely delightful. The monster is mesmerizing.

Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

There is no place more delightful than home.

The world is crammed with delightful things

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

Delight is indeed born in the heart. It sometimes also depends on its surroundings.

What a delightful thing this perspective is!