Quotes About Inspiration

That kind of freewheeling self-invention is where big breakthroughs come from, as Vigil knew (and Columbus, the Beatles, and Bill Gates would happily agree).

Zatopek found a way to run so that when he won, even other teams were delighted.

Kairos is the inspiration for the Cretan chestnut "Opportunity makes thieves." What matters is the timing, not the target—seize any opportunity, even if it's not the one you planned.

Christopher McDougall

Christopher McDougall

Mike Hickman disappeared. In his place arose Micah True, a name inspired by "the courageous and fearless spirit" of the Old Testament prophet Micah and the loyalty of an old mutt called True Dog.

Until now, we would say that the Greeks fight like heroes. From now on, we will say that heroes fight like Greeks. —WINSTON CHURCHILL, 1941

If you haven't the creative urge, or if it is fulfilled elsehow, then, although you may be a skilled craftsman, writing the most delightful letters to your friends, the most lucid reports to your superiors, you will never produce a poem or a play or a story. You may make a journalist but you will never make an author.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.

I have always suffered from the feeling that it's better to read a good book than to write a poor one; and I've done so much mixed reading in my time that my mind is full of echoes and voices of better men. But this book I'm worrying about now really deserves to be written, I think, for it has a message of its own.

It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.

You sell a man a book, you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You know at once, if you are clairvoyant in these matters (libre-voyant, one might say), when you have met your book. You may dally and evade, you may go on about your affairs, but the paragraph of prose your eye fell upon, or the snatch of verses, or perhaps only the spirit and flavour of the volume, more divined than reasonably noted, will follow you.

La notte ha una mistica affinità con la letteratura.

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it. - Roger Mifflin

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell him a whole new life. -Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.

For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.

Vivere in una libreria è come vivere in un deposito di esplosivi. Su quegli scaffali sono allineati i più tremendi combustibili del mondo: i cervelli degli uomini.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.