My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but… — Céline Sciamma Copy Share Image
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like." And… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine. — Horace Copy Share Image
...How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse.… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there is no right thing. Sometimes wrong wins, and that's okay. Life doesn't have cooker-cutters for right and wrong, Ryder. There's… — Pippa DaCosta Copy Share Image
She remembered timidly standing atop the Luthadel city wall, afraid to use her Allomancy to jump off, despite Kelsier's coaxing. Now she… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse. — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
