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While I was held prisoner, sweet inspiration educated me and laws were imparted to me in a speech which had no words...

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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Inspiration
  • Thing

• I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams
  • Who

• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Live
  • True
  • Knowledge

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Words
  • Just
  • Meant To Be

• I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Words
  • Light
  • Moving

• I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Inspiration

• Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Creativity

• Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Great
  • Hope

• There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Inspiration
  • Writer
  • Three

• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Words
  • Attitude
  • Leadership

• Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Different
  • Words
  • Religion

• Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Man

• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Words
  • Change

• My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Think
  • Words
  • Pull

• I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Words
  • Like
  • Paper

• That's you now, hello, ciao.Seems that life is great now.See me lose focus, as I sing to you loud.I can't, no, I won't hush.I'll say the words that make you blush.I'm gonna sing this now.See, I'm true, my songs are where my heart is.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • Good
  • Character
  • Words

• The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin B and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement.

  

  Emily Deschanel
  • Real
  • Challenge
  • Vegan

• Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a confrontation: an attempt to unpack my own queerness with humor and self care.

  

  Ben Hopkins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • American
  • Thing
  • Racial

• While I was held prisoner, sweet inspiration educated me and laws were imparted to me in a speech which had no words...

  

  Taliesin
  • Words
  • Inspiration
  • Sweet