Invocation Of The Muse Quotes & Sayings

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world. — Patti Smith

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer. — Susanna Hoffs

Now as always - humility and terror. Fear that the working of my pen cannot capture the grinding of my brain. It is so easy to understand why the ancients prayed for the help of a Muse. And the Muse came and stood beside them, and we, heaven help us, do not believe in Muses. We have nothing to fall back on but our craftsmanship and it, as modern literature attests, is inadequate. May I be honest; may I be decent; may I be unaffected by the technique of hucksters. If invocation is required, let this be my invocation - may I be strong and yet gentle, tender and yet wise, wise and yet tolerant. May I for a little while, only for a little while, see with the inflamed eyes of a God. — John Steinbeck

To choose who to love, is a decision no one else can help you with -- you have to decide for yourself. — Auliq Ice

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end — Homer

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community. — Magic Johnson

Baby, I don't just fuckin' like your pussy. On a scale of one to ten, it rates off the charts. If you were the only woman alive, I'd kill every motherfucker to make sure you only had eyes for me." I shifted my face so I could look her in the eyes. "And Evie, it's not just your pussy I love." I placed my hand over her heart, and whispered, "I love what's in here. — Nina Levine

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify. — Elizabeth Peters

Dont lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything. — Auliq Ice

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing — Chang-rae Lee

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities. — Alex Pareene

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children. — Iris Murdoch

Here, there is nothing my size. There's nobody around here to make himself the measure of everything, to praise or condemn others for their size — Haruki Murakami

A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is. — Sabrina Lloyd

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites. — Robert Graves

Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome. — Mohammad Khatami

Unraveling the web of Penelope. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

design is a term that bridges theory and practice. It encompasses both a principled approach and a set of contextualized practices that are constantly adapting to circumstances. — Helen Beetham