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While I was in Boston, sure enough this lady, Janet Thurlow, who was in the Lionel Hampton band, kept reminding them of me, and they called me one day and I was so happy.

Quote by Quincy Jones about happiness, day

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about pain, mind

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Quote by Franz Kafka about world

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Quote by Mark Twain about sex, world, man

Travel is a delight if you have a place to leave and return to.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Quote by Gilbert Parker about mistery, good, good luck

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

Quote by Alan Parsons about success, wealth, things, world

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about truth

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers

Quote by Walt Whitman about life, drinking, dance, faith, man

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Quote by Georges Bataille about pleasure, happiness

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Quote by Paul Engle about poetry, sadness, heads, word, poets

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Quote by Paul Claudel about intelligence, nothing

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Quote by Benjamin Jonson about vice, punishment, mind

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Quote by John Gay about courage, mercy, love

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Quote by Robert Frost about poetry, end, wisdom

All the variety, all the delight, all the beauty of life is composed of shadow and light.

Quote by Lev Nicolai Tolstoi about life