Quotes About Inspiration

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

Great art changes you.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Behind every great woman is a great behind!

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

I never thought of myself as a mogul, but it's really great to be in that position.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.