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"Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman. We will always remember her fondly."
"Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated from within. This inner light is truth, and when you suddenly see the truth, we gain insight, clarity, and joy."
"Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human."
"The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks."
"A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER."
"[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins."
"When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam."
"We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait"
"I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do."
"Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean."
"We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history."
"The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older."
"Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative."
"To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations."
"London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration."
"Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character."
"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."
"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."
"The willingness to listen and act on your inspiration is imperative if you're going to live the life you desire."
"Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse - when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you're no longer in charge, that there's a driving force inside you that can't be stopped."
