“When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”

“Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

Connie Willis (1945) American science fiction writer

“It's all in your head — you just have no idea how big your head is.”

Lon Milo DuQuette (1948) American occult writer

“Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from…”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

“If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.”

David Belle (1973) French actor

“You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

“Windin' your way down on Baker Street,
Light in your head and dead on your feet.
Well another crazy day,
You'll drink the night away
And forget about everything.
This city desert makes you feel so cold.
It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.
And it's taking you so long
To find out you were wrong,
When you thought it had everything.”

Gerry Rafferty (1947–2011) Scottish singer and songwriter