#muse

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. ↗

#british #british museum #family #i #looking

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. ↗

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#21st century #awareness #buildings #century #civic

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#full #ghosts #gloom #graces #haunted

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. ↗

— George MacDonald

#deep #froth #inch #live #mud

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#ceased #himself #how #knows #laugh

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#cease #himself #how #knows #laugh

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. ↗