#muse

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#amusement #flat #friendly #keeps #love

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#back #building #career #code #could

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#amuse #chicken #crew #crude #day

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#country #court #directors #every #expert

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#beauty #reading #thinking #writing #you

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. ↗

— John Green

#basement #contemporary #contemporary art #curator #decide

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#dinner #exceed #graces #guests #i

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

#great #quotation #read #spring #you

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

#like #looking #media #mirrors #park

I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life. ↗

— Richard Fortey

#museums #natural-history #life