Quotes about Inspiration

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

Oh, this journey! It was two hours cut clean out of his life; two hours in which he might have done so much, so much—written the perfect poem, for example, or read the one illuminating book.

I see her as a kind of Midas, turning everything she touched into imagination.

It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

The text of the Bible means what God inspired it to mean, not "what it means to

Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.

With out passion you dont have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.