„I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.“

„While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.“

—  Masiela Lusha Albanian actress, writer, author 1985

On her creative inspiration http://tolucantimes.info/section/inside-this-issue/young-author-makes-her-mark-in-the-world-of-children’s-literature/

„If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.“

—  Nassim Nicholas Taleb, книга Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Источник: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 63

„I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.“

—  Alberto Manguel writer 1948

Источник: The Library at Night

„The head of state
Has called for me by name
But I don't have time for him
It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck could change“

—  Thom Yorke English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter 1968

"Lucky"
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)

„I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me, I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together, and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.“

—  Miley Cyrus American actor and singer-songwriter 1992

Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN2234080420080422 (April 22, 2008)

„Each day used to be individually felt by me in its reference to the foreign post days; in its distance from, or propinquity to, the next Sunday. I had my Wednesday feelings, my Saturday nights’ sensations.“

—  Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia

“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)

„I am most comfortable with writing and pen and ink illustrations. My filter tends to be cut ups of what is around me blurred into my own feelings and interests of the Victorian era. I don't try to categorize myself but I do recognize my influences are a bit more macabre than usual.“

—  Lorin Morgan-Richards American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer 1975

Regarding his influences and style; as quoted in "Americymru" http://americymru.blogspot.com/2010/08/interview-with-lorin-morgan-richards.html "An Interview With Lorin Morgan-Richards” (25 August 2010).

„“I have been waiting for a sign. I knew that if I waited here long enough my bird, that tarishawk that rests here each day, I knew that he would come. Our Mother said that if he flew from the right, then I would have good fortune. If he came from the left, my journey would be disastrous for me, and it would bear no positive fruits for you.”
“And the hawk? Which way did it come? Did it come from the left?”
Dore smiled once more; his smile was always the most cheerless aspect of him. “The hawk has not come at all,” he said.“

—  George Alec Effinger Novelist, short story writer 1947 - 2002

Источник: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 1 “Prelude to...Danger!” (p. 19).

„The way you make me feel,
You really turn me on,
You knock me off my feet,
My lonely days are gone.“

—  Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009

The Way You Make Me Feel
Bad (1987)

„I try not to take my life for granted. I have friends who have tendinitis. That would kill me. A short break from the violin is fine, but if I don't touch it for three or four days, my fingers start to feel funny.“

—  Sarah Chang violinist 1980

„For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.“

—  Edgar Allan Poe, книга The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1843)

„As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.“

—  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg German scientist, satirist 1742 - 1799

E 52
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)

„Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longings of the day.“

—  Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools 1822 - 1888

Источник: Longing

„I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.“

—  Emily Brontë, книга Wuthering Heights

Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. IX).
Источник: Wuthering Heights (1847)

„Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.“

—  D.H. Lawrence English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter 1885 - 1930

„Lightning strikes
Inside my chest to keep me up at night.
Dream of ways
To make you understand my pain.“

—  John Mayer guitarist and singer/songwriter 1977

Heartbreak Warfare
Song lyrics, Battle Studies (2009)

„It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.“

—  Tommy Lee Jones American actor and film director 1946

On his acting career.
Interview interview (1995)

„So I wait for the day
when I'll hear the key
as it turns in the lock
And the guard will say to me,
"Oh my patient prisoner
you waited for this day and finally,
you are free!
You are free!
You are free!"“

—  Conor Oberst American musician 1980

From A Balance Beam
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

„I had been gone a fortnight when the telegram was put into my hands. I had got a letter from my sister, a few hours before, saying that all was well at home. The telegram said in five words that she had died suddenly the previous night. There was no mention of my mother, and I was three days' journey from home.
The news I got on reaching London was this: my mother did not understand that her daughter was dead, and they were waiting for me to tell her.“

—  J. M. Barrie, книга Margaret Ogilvy

Источник: Margaret Ogilvy (1897), Ch. 10