Quotes About Inspiration

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains — God composes, why shouldn't we?

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I may be writing in my dreams.

There are living days and there are writing days. But you can never have the writing without the living. And if you've got writer's block you'd better go have yourself a day of living to fix it, rather than beating on an idling brain.

You should write and read all day...

They'll find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.

One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one's pen.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.

"And when once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen." "But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any other way you can." "To be sure... I have seen a litherary gentleman in a sponging house do crack things on the wall, with a bit of burnt stick..."

Notorious RBG: You can't handle the Ruth.

I don't think then of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Hope is grief's best music.

...that word which GOD... has written on the brow of every man: hope!

our souls sing of faith, our hearts hymns of love

Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.

You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die; for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

...if you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

Let us be like that unafraid bird Lighted upon a twig that swings Feeling it yield but singing on— For knowing that he has wings!

As a candle cannot burn without fire, so man cannot live without spiritual force.

Here's to the man who labors and does it with a song. He stimulates his neighbors and helps the world along.

When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.

Martin Luther King represents a voice, a vision, and a way... I am convinced that the whole future of America depends on how seriously we take this voice, this vision, and this way.

And the night shall be filled with music...