Quotes About Inspiration

Rainbows are not just beautiful to look at. In a way, they tell us when everything began, including time and space. I think that makes the rainbow even more beautiful.

A] proper understanding of the magnificence of the real world, while never becoming a religion, can fill the inspirational role that religion has historically - and inadequately - usurped.

If you have Mozart to listen to, why would you need God?

He has no theistic beliefs, but shares the poetic naturalism that the cosmos provokes in

What is the colour of abstraction? What is the smell of hope?

The book owes something (and vice versa) to the two-part television documentary Root of All Evil?, which I presented on British television (Channel Four) in January 2006. I am

Unweaving the Rainbow

As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.

giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.

Religion has at one time or another been thought to fill four main roles in human life: explanation, exhortation, consolation and inspiration.

mostly science is, for me, a source of living joy

You may grind their souls in the self-same mill, You may bind them, heart and brow; But the poet will follow the rainbow still, And his brother will follow the plow. JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY (1844–90) 'The Rainbow's Treasure

There is real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.

cherish your creative spark, because there's no one else who can light it back up for you when it burns out.

It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.

But what reality was ever made by realists?

Why do you love words so? he heard Amy ask. ... They were the first beautiful thing I ever knew, Dorrigo Evans said.

Philopon helps me through this fever, Nakamura said, feeling

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

He read and reread 'Ulysses'. The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.