Quotes About Inspiration

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take things to.

The most fantastic thing you could film is people reading. I don't see why no one's done it... The movie you'd make would be a lot more interesting than most of them.

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.

There ran in me sweet lines of poetry

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Not everyone is fodder for books," said Rosalind.

It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

Aha!" I snapped my fingers, not realizing I had spoken aloud until I saw the glare on the face of the elderly passing clergyman. In his day—a very long time ago, that was—women did not go about getting sudden ideas in the Cathedral Close. It wasn't done. He sniffed and turned his back.

Love was love, but art was art and though he mixed the two a little, he never confused them.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of companies if they were men, become teachers. Teaching is a calling, too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy--angles leading their flocks out of the darkness.

Écrire, c'est fermer les yeux en les gardant ouverts.

I believe you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

chaque jour à mon âme tu ajoutes une flamme des fleurs à ma corbeille un rai à mon soleil

They also remind us of the importance of the imagination.

If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)

It is the conscious Breath that comes from the unnamable space where inspiration originates, and expiration returns—that space without boundaries, which we are sometimes fortunate enough to taste when silence reigns within us.

May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to.