Quotes About Inspiration

Book Time When you find yourself hungry again And there's nothing good to eat-- This is book time. Pull out a book-- Sink your teeth into the think of it.

Tu sais, le coucher de soleil quand y a des gros nuages pis que le ciel est rose, ben t'es plus belle que ça. Tu sais, quand le lac est calme, que c'est comme de l'huile pis que les truites se mettent à sauter, ben t'es plus… excitante que ça.

When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.

You can't rush your muse. They don't punch time clocks.

I have a very vivid imagination.

If God has given us the gift of creativity, 'much is required' in the way of our using it to his glory.

only through losing ourselves and becoming reliant on God can we discover how to use those gifts the way he wants us to use them. We will find the artist God intends us to be when we empty ourselves of self and become open to his plan and to the inspiration of his Holy Spirit. Only then will we experience personal artistic revival.

What would be the purpose of having an imagination and not using it?

Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.

Julia Cameron's book The Artist's

I had to wonder if the Lord above had flashed a heavenly spotlight over my head and whispered, "Preach this sermon just for her. She's not going to get the message otherwise.

May your troubles be less And your blessings be more And nothing but happiness Come through your door. Irish blessing

Enthusiasm is like a fire that needs an occasional poke with a stick.

1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk. If you inherit a donkey, may she be in foal. Irish saying There's no denying the fact that my grandpa Aengus shaped the way I look at life. The man had a saying for everything. If I fell and scraped my knee, he mended it with an Irish proverb: "For every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile." If I woke up with a head cold, he had an Irish

Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

What is clear is that genius, whether it is represented by a Thomas Edison or an Albert Einstein or an Alberto Ramirez, leaves the world a better place.

Sometimes all we have is a little light that we can shine outward into a big darkness.

It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.