Quotes About Inspiration

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

Henry Miller once wrote: "No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."3

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Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn't want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, "good book," as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburgh's empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.

The Beatles were working on an album called Everest (actually named after a brand of cigarettes). When it was suggested they should get the photo for the record cover taken at the actual place the album was named after - and being too lazy to travel to the Himalayas - they renamed it to Abbey Road, which was the street on which their recording studio was.

Theodore Roosevelt (after whom the Teddy Bear

and continued to lead his men; as you would imagine, his demonstration

Let's hope that when you're coming down I'll be looking up.

The trouble with life is that the moment someone tells you something is impossible, someone else promptly proves that it isn't

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

Don't let your dreams be dreams

This book was written with the hope that it will] save someone who wants to give up, for there is always a new life waiting.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

The only truth is music.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN

never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

Free your heart. Travel like the moon among the stars. —BUDDHA

You can't change it all, but your freedom empowers you to contribute to the world, and your love gives you the way to do so.

There is a vitality, a life force that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.