Inspiration Quotes

Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

My greatest inspiration is memory.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

Having a crying baby is inspiration to get the job done quickly.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration is good for the country. But the symbolism of it at ground zero, within two blocks or three blocks, I believe is wrong.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.