#muse

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. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#amused #be happy #does #expected #genius

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me. ↗

— John Malkovich

#good #good actors #i #i love #love

An art book is a museum without walls. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#book #museum #walls #without

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. ↗

— David Mamet

#carnival #degenerated #drama #films #offer

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes