Quotes About Inspiration

Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

A God-intoxicated man. [Ger., Gott-trunkener Mensch.]

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

All men are creative but few are artists.

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

Michelle Obama, and any woman behind an influential man, has always been there.

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.