#muse

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#amusement #generally #marriage #sad #solemn

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#greeks #muses #only #professions #recently

Our universities and museums are respected around the country. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#around #country #museums #our #respected

For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits. ↗

— Longus

#depression #god #inspiration #instruction #love

Life has a higher end, than to be amused. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#amused #end #higher #than

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it. ↗

— Marc Davis

#amuse #attended #before #different #different schools

You know, I auditioned for 'Titanic.' Sometimes I muse on what would have happened. That would have been such a different life. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#been #different #happened #i #know

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#door #happen #i #just #like

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#customer #dusty #end #filter #final

I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

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