Inspirationalists Quotes & Sayings

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik. — Garth Risk Hallberg

In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation. — James Thurber

You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name. — Leonora Carrington

Politics, it's all corrupt! — Steven Magee

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it. — Denis Diderot

I feel bad for young people. The 20s are a nightmare also. The 20s are hard to do. — Joy Behar

Once again St. Nicholas Day
Has even come to our hideaway;
It won't be quite as fun, I fear,
As the happy day we had last year.
Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt
That optimism would win the bout,
And by the time this year came round,
We'd all be free, and safe and sound.
Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day,
Though we've nothing left to give away.
We'll have to find something else to do:
So everyone please look in their shoe! — Anne Frank

In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo. — Jill Shalvis