Delighted Quotes - Page 2

• Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Looks, Look Up, Dictionary

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• I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

  Arsene Wenger

  Stay Strong, Doubt, Courses

  "Campbell and Lauren agree new deals". www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2005.

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• I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Solitude, Feelings, Kind

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• My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

  Vivien Leigh

  Parent, Wanted

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• I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Home, Heart, Years

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

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• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  Lady Gregory

  Baby, Children, Drama

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish”, p.193, tredition

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• I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

  Colin Firth

  Culture, Popular Culture, Stills

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

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• Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Quitting, Institutions

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

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• I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results.

  Sarah Brightman

  Hurt, Hair, Said

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• Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

  Richard Branson

  Nice, Long, Alive

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2014

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• My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.

  Buffalo Bill

  Home, Wife, West

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.363, U of Nebraska Press

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• I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.

  Bill Ayers

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• Professor Brown: 'Since this slide was made,' he opined, 'My students have re-examined the errant points and I am happy to report that all fall close to the [straight] line.' Questioner: 'Professor Brown, I am delighted that the points which fell off the line proved, on reinvestigation, to be in compliance. I wonder, however, if you have had your students reinvestigate all these points that previously fell on the line to find out how many no longer do so?'

  Herbert C. Brown

  Fall, Science, Lines

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• I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well.

  Dylan Moran

  People, Newts, Site

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• The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Males, Female, Welcome

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• I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

  Tom Stoppard

  Waiting, University

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• I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.

  Rod Stewart

  Mum

  "Rod Stewart: I burst into tears when Penny said she was pregnant". www.mirror.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Adventure, Romance

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• Adrian frowned. 'Is that a noose?' 'It's a tie!' I cried, trying not to feel offended. He laughed, clearly delighted at this. 'My mistake.

  Richelle Mead

  Mistake, Ties, Trying

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

  Richard Russo

  Fool

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• Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, People, Want

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  To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

  J. B. Priestley

  Happiness, Children, Delight

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• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  J. B. Priestley

  Life, Motivational, Good Morning

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• All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Bankers, Recessions

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

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• I've got some news... I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together. I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon.

  Adele

  Children, Moon, Together

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