Nose Thrills

Aspire to inspire before we expire. - Unknown

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

Inspiration is remembering the future. - Unknown

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought. - Laurence Olivier

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. - Buffy Sainte-Marie

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man? - Homer Simpson

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D Roosevelt

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill. - George Burns

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Stephen King

When people ask if I do my own stunts, I always answer, "Not on purpose." - Billy Bob Thornton

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions. - Steve Breen

After you cut off a person's nose there is no point in giving him a rose to smell. - Ravi Zacharias

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people. - Dian Fossey

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it. - Adam Ant

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated. - Dian Fossey

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. - Orrin Woodward

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table. - Joe Biden

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg