#ira

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. ↗

— Giacomo Puccini

#artistic #awakening #faculties #high #inspiration

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something! ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#aspiration #challenge #direct #doing #enjoying

But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#atomic #atomic energy #beyond #civilian #co-operation

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. ↗

— Man Ray

#ask #course #curious #how #i

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#deserved #desirable #earned #hug #like

It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#inspirational

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#burden #coalition #continue #cost #diplomacy

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#aspirations #extraordinary #led #most #reckless

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. ↗

— Charles Morgan

#deepens #increases #knowledge #wonder