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  • Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

    Home   Temptation   Devil  
  • The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

    Believe   Guitar   Fire  
    Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.
  • Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?

    Distance   Clouds   Voice  
    Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales”, p.45, Library of America
  • I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything to do with — they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I shoud mention them in my writings & I find more pleasure in wandering the fields then in mixing among my silent neighbours who are insensible of everything but toiling & talking of it & that to no purpose.

    Writing   Men   Talking  
    "Letters".
  • I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

    Grief   Wind   Soul  
    "Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon".
  • To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

    Cities   Two   Paris  
    Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9
  • Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

    Dream   Flower   Heart  
    "Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos".
  • Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

    Spiritual   Real   Spine  
    Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company
  • No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

    Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234
  • To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his characters - or unworthy of tragedy, which is worse.

    Character   Men   Tragedy  
  • This love of ours, in so far as it is a love for one particular creature, is not perhaps a very real thing, since, though associations of pleasant or painful musings can attach it for a time to a woman to the extent of making us believe that it has been inspired by her in a logically necessary way, if on the other hand we detach ourselves deliberately or unconsciously from those associations, this love, as though it were in fact spontaneous and sprang from ourselves alone, will revive in order to bestow itself on another woman.

    Love   Real   Believe  
  • Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

    Book   Eye   Light  
  • Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

    FaceBook post by Tom Peters from Aug 19, 2013
  • My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

  • Children often have been likened to scientists. Both ask fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Both also ask innumerable questions that seem utterly trivial to others. Finally, both are granted by society the time to pursue their musings.

    Robert S. Siegler (1991). “Children's Thinking”, Prentice Hall
  • In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

    Country   Powerful   Fate  
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr
  • Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.

    Taken   Reading   Science  
    Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.29, The Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

    Book   Design   Secret  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.
  • As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key.

    Simple   Keys   Hands  
  • Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

  • I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

    Self   Fellows   Musings  
  • Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

    Believe   Insomnia   Race  
    FaceBook post by Jonathan Lethem from Jul 01, 2016
  • The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

    Air   Temptation   Use  
    "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
  • I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.

    "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.
  • ... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.

    Gertrude Bell (2014). “Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea”, p.147, I.B.Tauris
  • Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.

    Luci Swindoll (2003). “I Married Adventure”, p.121, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

  • Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter.

    Beautiful   Stars   Book  
  • You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

    Source: www.pbs.org
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