Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.

I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

The very air in which you live is an inspiration.

I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.