Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
James Connolly

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.
Michael N. Castle

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire

Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men.
Wilford O. Cross

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
Benjamin Cardozo

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
Shelby Foote

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.
Colin Greenwood

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
Jimmy Chamberlin

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
John L. Phillips

My dad's music was a great inspiration to me.
Julian Lennon

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
Enrique Iglesias

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.
Nomar Garciaparra

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.
Fred Durst

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Carly Fiorina

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
Meg Cabot

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
Cole Porter