Quotes About Inspiration

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

They might see that you are going to meet a beautiful woman or a beautiful man. They will come to you in dreams and tell you this is going to happen because of them.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I dont know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Art is the signature of man.

First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.