Inspired Quotes - Page 23

• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Vintage, Designer, Be Inspired

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• I've always been inspired by beautiful interiors.

  Aerin Lauder

  Beautiful, Interiors

  "Aerin Lauder Expands to Home Decor" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. September 28, 2012.

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• A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Real, Inspiration

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2794, Library of Alexandria

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• The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg’s prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Writing, Inward, Looks

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• When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

  Thomas Leonard

  Motivation, People, Needs

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• A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures as that of my heroine, and it is in the sphere of quiet homes-not elsewhere-I believe that a woman can best rule and save the world.

  T.C. Boyle

  Believe, Home, Simple

  T. C. Boyle (2012). “San Miguel”, p.130, A&C Black

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• As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.

  Luther Burbank

  Ideas, People, Perfect

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• To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to control and defy her destiny and to know her story is to be inspired by pity and terror.

  Elaine Dundy

  Blessed, Destiny, Stories

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• I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.

  Nancy Lublin

  Data, Chinese, Dallas

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• I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

  Noah Baumbach

  Directors, Watches, Certain

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• Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If youre into electronics, get an Arduino.

  Bre Pettis

  Together, Stuff, Electronics

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• So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Heaven, Victory, Age

  Gregory A. Boyd (1997). “God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict”, p.254, InterVarsity Press

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• How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Believe, Law, Atheism

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• I'm inspired by other people's creativity, just seeing things happen and wondering where they come from. That gets my mind going. Even if it's just wanting to know how something works.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Creativity, People, Mind

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• I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Morning, Bed, Sense Of Humor

  "Interview: Michael Stuhlbarg of ‘A Serious Man’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. October 8, 2009.

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• I always say that I'm really inspired by mistakes and things that kind of go wrong.

  Alexander Wang

  Mistake, Kind

  Source: www.elle.com

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• To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.

  Justin Timberlake

  Careers, Musical, Acting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.

  RZA

  Fire, Alchemist, Burning

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.

  Mose Allison

  Years, Sound, Influence

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

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• Create a tattoo or something inspired by tattoos.

  Noah Scalin

  Tattoo

  Noah Scalin (2016). “365 Expanded Edition: A Daily Creativity Journal”, p.203, Voyageur Press (MN)

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• Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity--
  Early to bed and early to rise
  Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
  As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Boys, Men

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• For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Running, Men

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

  Denise Levertov

  Attitude, Moving, Poetry

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• The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, August, Paris

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistanceRecognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning--filled with admiration inspired by beauty--to find the continuation.

  Marcel Proust

  Song, Heart, Law

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