Quotes About Inspiration

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.

When I came home, I was asked to put my pictures in a photo exhibit at the Cinematography College ... my pictures won first prize. I began to ask myself what I was doing, and why. A few months after the exhibit, I dropped out of college, left my wife and began to write this book.

By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

All literature in some degree, exists to reveal a more powerful and passionate, a more divine world than ours.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

And cried, 'Before I am old I shall have written him one Poem maybe as cold And passionate as the dawn.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything.

Prayer is mans greatest power!

Almost anything can be found in a book.

necessity gave them inspiration to action...experience gave them know-how...and I taught them the necessary knowledge.