"I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction."

-- James Rollins

#Inspiration Quotes #Reading Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.”
“It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.”

Source : Homer Hickam (2007). “The Coalwood Way: A Memoir”, p.9, Island Books
“But what is now encompassed by the one word (â€œschoolâ€) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nationâ€™s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books
“When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.”
“A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.”

Source : "I don't want to be a dictator or to be adored" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2004.
“It was a great challenge to reconstruct Gypsy Rose Lee life, and my interviews with her sister [June Havoc] proved invaluable. It's not often that writers have access to living primary source material; this was the only person who experienced life on the vaudeville circuit with Gypsy during the 1920s, and who saw her perform at Minsky's Burlesque in the 1930s. She knew things that no one else could ever possibly know.”

Source : Source: tech.blorge.com
“I believe life experiences are what an actor needs to relate to the character roles they take on, and to say the least, I've had many experiences leading up to this moment. Not only have my experiences become a tremendous asset in my acting, but also they helped me discover who I am and who I want to be.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life....”

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