#muse

Also, I am driven by a wonderful muse called alimony. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#also #am #called #driven #i

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum. ↗

— Norton Simon

#museum #people #pictures #see #these

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— George Gaylord Simpson

#debt #i #loyalty #me #museum

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#change #destiny #greater-calling #helping-people #life

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#amusement #age

She had found more than peace of mind. She had discovered the state of her soul set down in ink. ↗

— Nancy Horan

#inspiration #muse #art

I am drawn to Tom Sawyer Island because a tribute to Mark Twain would not be out of place in a theme park of my own design. Should Vowell World ever get enough investors, I'm going to stick my Tom Sawyer Island in Love and Death in the American Novel Land right between the Jay Gatsby Swimming Pool and Tom Joad's Dust Bowl Lanes, a Depression-themed bowling alley renting artfully worn-out shoes. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#as-i-lay-dying #great-gatsby #humor #mark-twain #tom-sawyer

...today there are bars of light on the rug, but Muse Cat prefers his tomato box where he can dream in private... ↗

— John Geddes

#dreams #muse #dreams

All the fires of hell could burn for a thousand years and it wouldn't equal what I feel for you in one minute of the day. I love you so much there is no pleasure in it. Nothing but torment. Because if I could dilute what I feel for you to the mil­lionth part, it would still be enough to kill you. And even if it drives me mad, I would rather see you live in the arms of that cold, soulless bastard than die in mine.", Merripen said to Win. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#merripen #museum #win #equality

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked. ↗

— Jane Austen

#commentary #humor #snark #humor