Musk Quotes

• O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Bumps, Swirls, Dusk

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.148, Indiana University Press

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• No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

  Narciso Rodriguez

  Memorable, Sensual, Scent

  "Narciso Rodriguez: Designer Of Michelle Obama’s Election Night Dress Looks Back". Interview with Rachel Strugatz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won't find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Positivity, Deer, Bliss

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• The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

  Ramakrishna

  World, Scent, Deer

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• Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

  Janet Fitch

  Prayer, Eye, Orange

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Looks

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.246

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• Tesla burns cash. It's not a car company, it's a cult of fanatics who think Elon Musk can do no wrong. But financially, it doesn't work.

  Bob Lutz

  Thinking, Car, Cash

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.

  Ramakrishna

  Essence, Laughing, Effort

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• Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere to his footprints if you do not know the way. Cleave to the footprints of the deer and advance with care that you may reach the musk-gland. By means of such trekking, even if you walk on fire, you will reach the luminous peak.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Blessed, Islamic

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• The intellectual is always showing off,
  the lover is always getting lost.
  The intellectual runs away.
  afraid of drowning;
  the whole business of love
  is to drown in the sea.
  Intellectuals plan their repose;
  lovers are ashamed to rest.
  The lover is always alone.
  even surrounded by people;
  like water and oil, he remains apart.
  The man who goes to the trouble
  of giving advice to a lover
  get nothing. He's mocked by passion.
  Love is like musk. It attracts attention.
  Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

  Rumi

  Love, Running, Passion

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. Alaska, as a statewide family, we've got to fight for each other, not against and not let external, sensationalized distractions draw us off course. As an exciting year of unpredictable change begins, we, too, have our work cut out for us. And we're all in this together. Just like our musk ox, they circle up to protect their future when they are challenged. We've got to do the same.

  Sarah Palin

  Mother, Fighting, Cutting

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• I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

  Iggy Azalea

  Memorable, Oil, Overpowering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad, And the musk of the rose is blown. For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Morning, Moving

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 1

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• Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
  And mid-May's eldest child,
  The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
  The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

  John Keats

  Summer, Children, Wine

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 5

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• His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath being tainted by the stench of dying cells. The smell of him seemed to coat my abused insides with peace, and flow down into the middle of my body to spread through my veins. I filled my lungs again. While I could, before what was undoubtedly a hallucination vanished.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Cells, Smell, Dying

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• Funny, isn't it? The airlines go to all that trouble to keep you from taking a gun on board, then they just hand you a dinner roll you could kill a musk ox with.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Flower, Glowing

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 142

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• Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

  Matthew Arnold

  Break, Carnations, Midsummer

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 61

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• I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I've even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I'm creepy. So creepy.

  Pete Wentz

  Girl, People, Creepy

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• I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field.

  Rodney Brooks

  Technology, Thinking, People

  "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans and Robots in the Economy". Council on Foreign Relations Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology, www.cfr.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I am essence of Rose Solitude
  my cheeks are laced with cognac
  my hips sealed with five satin nails
  I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
  flames
  between the musk of fat
  and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

  Jayne Cortez

  Dream, Flames, Essence

  Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr

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• I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Sweet

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 249

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• in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief

  Yosa Buson

  Garden, Vegetables, Feelings

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• Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse,
  My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse.
  I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk,
  Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Elephants, Hype

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• In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue musk so powerful it seemed that even the fish and ducks would swoon. By night, the flower might wither but the perfume lasted. Fainter and fainter, but never quite gone. Even many days later, the lotus remained in the garden. Months would pass and a bee would alight near the spot where the lotus had blossomed, and its essence was released again, momentary but undeniable.

  Anita Diament

  Powerful, Flower, Night

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