I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
Cole PorterRead
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
Interpretation
The quote celebrates the joy and beauty found in love and art.
Cole Porter's quote expresses a whimsical joy that can come from love and beauty. It captures the essence of delight, suggesting that the experiences and feelings associated with love are not only enjoyable but also creatively enriching, enhancing our perception of life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a romantic wedding speech to emphasize the joy of love.
I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or soft be her tears, More and more do I realize: I love Paris in the springtime. I love Paris in the fall. I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles, I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles. I love Paris every moment, Every moment of the year. I love Paris, why, oh why do I love Paris? Because my love is near.
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.
Night and day you are the one,_x000D_ _x000D_ Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt
I, too, am interested in identity and Islam, which is what people expect of us. But one must not write what is expected. It's important for North African writers to show they have other things to say.
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.
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