Quotes About Inspiration

In dreams begin possibilities.

Fictional characters soon take on a life of their own. They run with the bit between their teeth.

Writers are always pirates, marauding, taking whatever pleases them from others, shaping these stolen goods to our purposes.

Ideas arise independently from the same mysterious source.

Love is blind. God is Love. Ray Charles is blind. Therefore Ray Charles must be God"14 Tom Waits was already a believer.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Every good game leaves the player eager to start again, unsatisfied or inspired by their opponent , there is a hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time – my regret is that there is not enough time to play Paul F. Meekin again and win back my watch."

Phillis Wheatley

These spires above my house are doves, lifted by grace above the earth's eruption.

What voice have I borrowed to express a necessary silence?

Great quotes are like great medicine; they can cure us when we are down—written in 2008 by Jay Xiong

Brilliance is born of desperation.

Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with others, with those who don't originate from the planet of words and language. Other things do happen, but we don't know what they are until we write about them, or think about them in words, or remember them in phrases. - From "Why She Writes

A song moves a story fast or slow like the river moves the water.

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk she sang. She was a tower of strength.

We are all being called to help usher in a new way of being for humanity. We are called not only for ourselves but to inspire these changes in others.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

If You Can Dream It, You Can Be It!

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt in God.

Inspiration is a trick that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.