Quotes About Inspiration

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

Oftentimes when I do a project I do get influenced by the wardrobe. I certainly learned a lot from 'Mad Men' and from Janie (Bryant) in particular. She's just so fabulous.

I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.

Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.