Delight And Instruct Quotes

#1. We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

Alberto Manguel

#2. The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.

Peter Eisenman

#3. In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?

Dana Gioia

#4. I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

Adam Brody

#5. Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.

Javier Bardem

#6. I'm 26 years old, and I've spent my whole life waiting for something else to start. Now I realize that this is all there is, and I'm going to try to live my life like that.

Zach Braff

#7. That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Alice Hoffman

#8. It is the duty, therefore, of the eloquent churchman, when he is trying to persuade the people about something that has to be done, not only to teach, in order to instruct them; not only to delight, in order to hold them; but also to sway, in order to conquer and win them.

Augustine Of Hippo

#9. All of us have to work toward a definite future ... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.

Peter Thiel

#10. And I've been dubbed adorable. I am not okay with this. This is not acceptable. Charlotte is so getting fucked from behind tonight so she knows there's nothing adorable about me.

Lauren Blakely

#11. It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

Judith Crist

#12. Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I'm not giving advice. I don't instruct. At my best, I delight. That's my job.

Ron Koertge

#13. Everyone is the student of someone! No one is born as a teacher!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk. Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go ...

Allen Ginsberg

#15. Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.

Karen Davison

#16. With magic almost anything was possible; all objects had energy, and energy could be manipulated.

Stacia Kane

#17. Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much,

Adrian Peterson

#18. So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer [ ... ] That forward-looking element is ... inseparable from the judgment of beauty.

Alexander Nehamas

#19. And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

Cassandra Clare