Source Quotes · Page 42

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

— Maira Kalman

Coffee isn't just a source of pleasure for me: it is something I rely on to get me through the day.

— Ronan Keating

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to…

— Lena Headey

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could…

— Anonymous

Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to…

— David Gemmell

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

— Victor Hugo

You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such…

— Jaggi Vasudev

The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to…

— John Lancaster Spalding

When you're in the CIA, you anticipate the possibility that you'll be betrayed by a foreign government or a source, but you…

— Valerie Plame

You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount…

— Kenneth P. Thompson

I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to…

— Frederick Lenz

This is my experience of Oprah Winfrey - she makes decisions as frequently as she can to contribute with consciousness, with awareness,…

— Gary Zukav

Moorcock's interlinked 'Eternal Champion' series is a constant source of enjoyment. Of its tragic hero incarnations, my favourite is 'Elric of Melnibone,'…

— Neal Asher

I can't think of a scenario under which [Vladimir Putin] would gradually resign from power. For him and those around him, power…

— Garry Kasparov

Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we…

— Eratosthenes

I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm…

— Wole Soyinka

In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution…

— Ernest L. Wilkinson

“They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve to think otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for…

— Oliver Bowden

Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That…

— Kathleen Raine

[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at…

— Frank Debenham

I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development…

— Thomas A. Edison

Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis.…

— Andrew Tudor

You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download…

— James Gosling

Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.

— Michael Dirda

The named was born from the unnamed . . . all being flows from non-being . . . the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.

— Laozi

All the studies say that immigrants are less likely to be criminals in the United States. That's what they say. The sources…

— Joe Arpaio

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

— Dalai Lama

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal…

— Anonymous

There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.

— John A. Sanford

For years, Trump himself was the Trump Foundation's only source of money: Between 1987 and 2006, he donated $5.4 million.

— David Fahrenthold

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all…

— Adyashanti

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

— Barry Long

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their…

— Auguste Comte

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of…

— Dalai Lama

The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in…

— Samuel R. Delany

Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.

— Tom Baker

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

— Gene Stratton-Porter