X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Inspirational Quotes

Filter & Style
Image
I'm always on to something else. It's like, I'm sitting here now jotting down notes for something that's in my head. There's always something going on in my head, and I have to just keep executing.
Tyler Perry
Image
January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.
Anne Truitt
Image
Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.
Barack Obama
Image
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Behind every word flows energy.
Sonia Choquette
Image
The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.
Anne Truitt
Image
There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.
Tyler Perry
Image
artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.
Anne Truitt
Image
I had forgotten what sleep is like - a kingdom all its own.
Anne Truitt
Image
I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.
Anne Truitt
Image
Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.
Tyler Perry
Image
Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.
Tyler Perry
Image
When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.
Anne Truitt
Image
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
Anne Truitt
Image
There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death
Bret Harte
Image
As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.
Tyler Perry
Image
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
Image
I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.
Tyler Perry
Image
I never decided at all to be an artist being an artist seems to have happened to me.
Anne Truitt
Image
A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
Pat Paulsen
Image
My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, intellectuals gone bad, a fairly succinct description of my own life, seemed appropriate.
Anne Taintor
Image
Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.
Anne Taintor
Image
There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.
Tyler Perry
Image
We have nothing to fear but our mothers.
Anne Taintor
Image
While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb.
Anne Sweeney
Previous
Next