Lila Acheson Wallace Quotes

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

I love to look at beauty.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.

When I go to a music concert, I don't say, "My purpose is to get to the end and enjoy the finale." If that were the purpose, everybody would write finales and nothing more. The purpose of the concert is to enjoy each note as you go along.

Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it's happening.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

I really have been blessed and fortunate to have accomplished what I have. I hope to do this for a long time. It's such an enjoyable job. I love to do it.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

Do something you love and people will love you for it.

Go after what you want, but enjoy the trip.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.

If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.