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Quotes About Inspiration

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
~ Nigel Rees
Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
~ Bryan Ferry
Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.
~ David Oliver Relin
I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.
~ Gary Cole
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
~ William T. Wiley
My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.
~ Gunther Schuller
The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.
~ Fritz Weaver
I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.
~ Jackson Guthy
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
~ James Russell Lowell
I was fascinated by movies from age 12.
~ Jean Paul Gaultier
If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.
~ Stella Mozgawa
I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid.
~ Jim Thome
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
~ Joe Klein
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
~ John le Carre
This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.
~ John Strachan
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.
~ Vivek Shraya
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
~ Jonathan Swift
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.
~ Jonathan Swift
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
~ Joni Mitchell
Never be afraid to chase your dream at any age.
~ Kristopher Belman
People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.
~ Leila Josefowicz
My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
~ Lionel Barber
If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.
~ Lloyd Kaufman