Gary Gilmore Quotes

One is inspired only in solitude.

Gary Gilmore

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• The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Me
  • Style

• I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Words
  • Me
  • Inspired

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• 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
  • Age
  • Respect
  • Hair

• Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Country
  • Inspired
  • Queen

• No longer are the days where I just kind of fly under the radar. Everybody's recognizing me. Everybody wants pictures. They feel inspired. It's very cool.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Inspired

• TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important ideas of our time. Our focus is on women as change agents, innovators and idea champions, and I think people will be both inspired and surprised by the program. We're exploring some fascinating territory!

  

  Pat Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Real
  • Energy
  • Play

• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Patience
  • Ego
  • Solitude

• In solitude the trumpets of solitude Are not of another solitude resounding; A little string speaks for a crowd of voices.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Solitude

• Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide,Voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time.The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.Would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?And I would be the oneTo hold you down,Kiss you so hardI'll take your breath away.And after, I'd wipe away the tears,Just close your eyes dear.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Night

• For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • People
  • Famous
  • Inspired

• A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Great
  • Solitude

• A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

  

  Alan Parker
  • Solitude

• There are many wonderful themes from 'Moana' that people discover, and I also hope they're inspired to go on their own journeys and to learn more about the Polynesian culture, because we're pretty great! I'm so proud of the people the filmmakers talked to - the Oceanic Trust.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'

  

  Kelly Ripa
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

  

  Mystikal
  • Writing
  • Inspired
  • Rap

• Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Never
  • Speech
  • Notes

• I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.

  

  Leigh Steinberg
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Picture

• I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Time
  • Important
  • Trying

• The first lead that I ever played was a young Boy George when I was seventeen. I shaved my eyebrows off. That's as far from leading man looks as you can get.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Boy

• One is inspired only in solitude.

  

  Gary Gilmore
  • Inspired
  • Solitude