Quotes About Inspiration

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.