No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
Daniel Webster

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
Dan Simmons

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
Lesley Garrett

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Cornelia Funke

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
Greta Scacchi

Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown.
Loretta Lynn

Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.
Alicia Keys

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
Arthur Erickson

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
Beverly Cleary

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
James H. Douglas

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.
Daphne Zuniga

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.
James Young

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
Sarah Bernhardt

Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.
John Shimkus

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.
Gloria Estefan

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.
Joseph Jarman