Euterpe Quotes & Sayings

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love. — C.S. Lewis

You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically. — Graham Coxon

What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to dance.' 'But now we walk,' said the father. 'And behind us an enemy walks faster.' 'That's life,' said Euterpe. — Russell Hoban

With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay. — Edward Kennedy

I have a strong emotional respect for Steve. — Walter Isaacson

Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the Devouring Void for the Seminal Light. Earthly Women and the Muses are ancient, sworn enemies. The battlefield is the Creative Male. On the one side is the encampment of Discordia, of Diana, of Venus located in his Heart and in his Groin. On the other is the Bastion of Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania, in his Brain and in his Mind. The Muses are tolerant and understanding of border raids, skirmishes, and harassing maneuvers. Throughout the history of the Male Light, there have been few painters, few writers, who have not had a She Who Must Be Accommodated. For some it was their mothers. For many their wives, their mistresses, their girlfriends. For many it was their daughters, a favourite waitress, a stripper, a whore. To the Muses, they are all one. Mother, whore, wife, daughter, stripper, waitress, mistress, girlfriend. — Dave Sim

Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying. — Richelle Mead

Live as if you already are what you wish to become. — William Jones

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds. — James Dean

When you get too involved with people, you're forced to feel what they're feeling — Elizabeth Lee

Always be sexy. I salute that message. — Ted Cruz

Did you know that the author William Shakespeare invented more than seventeen hundred words, including 'assassination' and 'bump'? — Lenore Look

All I have to do is just look into a dog's eyes. The eyes of a Saint Bernard, an English mastiff, a shar-pei, a Jack Russell terrier, a French bulldog, a corgi, a pug. A lot of the time I think all you have to do is look into any dog's eyes, and there'll you'll find honesty; there, I think so much of the time, you'll find the truth. — Alison Pace

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing. — Carol Morgan

And indeed he who pursues pleasure as good, and avoids pain as evil, is guilty of impiety. — Marcus Aurelius