"The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her."

-- Harlan Coben

#Voice Quotes #Attention Quotes #Might Quotes

“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Uglies”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
“A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.”

Source : James Geary (2011). “I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World”, p.8, Harper Collins
“The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.”
“In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago. It is really at this point that the pleasure of research begins, when one is, so to speak, alone with nature and no longer worries about human opinions, views and demands. To put it in a way that is more learned than clear: the philological aspect drops out and only the philosophical remains.”

Source : "Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher". Book by Davis Baird, R.I.G. Hughes and Alfred Nordmann, 1998.
“The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.”
“I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.”

Source : "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.
“When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.”
“Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.”

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