Delicious Quotes - Page 13

• Ours was such a delicious risk. My being abruptly and altogether Ecstatic and be-stilled.

  Scott Hastie

  Risk, Ecstatic

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• O delicious kiss,
  Why thou so sudden art gone?
  Lost in the moment thou art won?

  John Wolcot

  Art, Kissing, Gone

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• Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Solitude, Suggestions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.388

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• Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie.

  Esther Hicks

  Children, Fun, Adversity

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• I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

  Felicity Kendal

  Wine, Glasses, Small Amounts

  "My body & soul". Interview with Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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• I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Mean, Twelve, Noon

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• My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Mom, Pie, People

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• It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly.

  Joan Blondell

  Men, Thinking, Compassion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.

  Anna Thomas

  Children, Food, Kids

  Anna Thomas (2009). “Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• While briskly to each patriot lip
  Walks eager round the inspiring flip;
  Delicious draught, whose pow'rs inherit
  The quintessence of public spirit!

  John Trumbull

  Drinking, Flip, Lips

  John Trumbull (1839). “M'Fingal: a modern epic poem, in four cantos”, p.56

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• There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.

  Mary Webb

  Flower, Book, Garden

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• No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Sweet, Pain, Grief

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• Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

  Stella Benson

  Misunderstood, Excellent, Conscience

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

  Sappho

  Air, Mere

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• I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

  Kris Carr

  Witty, Inches

  Kris Carr, Sheila Buff (2011). “Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It!”, p.246, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

  George Eliot

  Disappointment, Lying, Forever

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda Volume Iii EasyRead Editi”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Math, Squares

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1386, Library of America

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Brother, First Love

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

  Didi

  Beautiful, Children, Joy

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• That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

  John Randolph of Roanoke

  People, Privilege, Spending

  "John Randolph of Roanoke". Book by William Cabell Bruce, vol. 2, chapter 7, p. 204, 1773 - 1833.

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• The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.

  Douglas Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Awful

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• The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one of these tales, or even to read it twice over. But let them have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times, heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales in which they are never roughly pulled up by the impossible —even where all is impossible, and they know it, and yet believe.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Believe, Adventure

  "Home Education".

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• Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

  Diana Vreeland

  Clothes, Evening

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• Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven.

  Tucker Max

  Halloween, Alcohol, Heaven

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.

  Rick Bayless

  Vegetables, Mexican, Stuff

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